I can't own the above picture.  I can only bear personal first person on site un-biased witness to the place in our recent history and our current hearts.  The one and only A&C Surfing Karaoke International Hawaiian Popsicle Wedding.

This blog is not about Charlotte and Adam's wedding.  Tho I can see where it would be a marvelous subject for a blog, a great epic novel, a Netflix Original miniseries a country song...

This one is going to be about things on this side of the pond.  Sometimes.  Maybe.  We'll see.

The name is goingfree.co    And I want to open up a conversation about the meaning of freedom.  I want to ride my bike across the country and forage wild vegetables, berries, nuts and mushrooms along the way.  I want to talk to people along the way and ask them, "What do you think freedom is?"

I'll do that at some point.  And in the meantime I wanted to start another story, and bounce it off of some of my old trusted confidants. Yes, I'm talking about you.  I think....