The blogger is particularly intrigued by Taco Tico, which he loved as a kid, and has written about it two times. It’s called Broken Chains and it’s a detailed look at the stragglers and survivors left behind when regional or national restaurant or retail chains shut down. The final push to go look at Lexington came from a fascinating new blog which started up earlier this year and which I’m sure all of our few remaining readers will completely love. The closest Gold Star is in Berea KY, and Lexington, a city we’ve never really explored in depth, is just thirty-odd more miles up the highway. I debated where I wanted to go, and the craving for Cincinnati-style chili won out. But, three weeks into my job, I was able to take a change of clothes and hit the road as soon as we finished on Friday. Marie and her family had already planned a long weekend on Saint Simons Island, but the timing of this new start meant that I couldn’t join them for all the dates planned. I looked for full time work in my field for months and months… agonizingly discouraging months, actually, but I finally gave up and went back to the corporate world for a much, much larger salary. It was a part time job, which paid the bills and let me do good things for people who needed help, but it hasn’t left us with very much “get out and play” money. Since moving to Chattanooga, I’d been working for a small non-profit agency. Since we last spoke, there’s been a big and overdue change around the home front. Sadly, the drive was there, but the meals weren’t… We’d planned to come roaring back to your subscription feeds with a series of six or more stories over the course of the next few weeks.
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