Can’t really write a travel blog when you can’t travel. I’d write about fitness but I’m about to hang myself with my own resistance bands so that won’t work. This space is prepaid though so, lets just talk about the random things you never knew you needed when the world is ending.
To Guy Fieri, Casey, the guy who goes to carnivals and eats literal garbage, fire food bro and all of you over at The Cooking Channel; I just want to say thank you.
I never realized how much I enjoyed going to the grocery store on a daily basis. I’m not a leftovers guy so I stopped in at Publix or wherever after the gym everyday and picked up what I wanted to eat for dinner for that day. Maybe it was pork, maybe chicken, maybe lettuce (I miss you most of all fresh lettuce). I took fresh ingredients FOR GRANTED and much like the ability to walk after my knee surgery I swear (if my wife ever lets me leave the house again) that I will treasure my trips to the grocery store from here on out.
Why be thankful for The Cooking Channel though? They help me ESCAPE. I live VICARIOUSLY through these folks. 5lbs of Frito pie? Fuck yeah lets go. Smoking an entire pig by burying it in the ground for like 2 days? You son of a bitch I’m in. Aromatics??? YOU’RE SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE.
So thank you Triple D, Man vs. Food, Burgers, Brew and Que, et al. because without you, I couldn’t close my eyes and imagine what it’d be like to be able to consume a 5lb lobster roll half naked and sweating on the beach.
It’s our dreams that give us hope.