Intro by @daniel.fritchman

After a decade at Apple, I had a vision of what I wanted to do next: nothing.  I could quit and live off my high-power attorney-wife.  When I told her of this plan, I expected she would be elated at how smart it was. 

She seemed to like it a bit too much.  Shortly after I left Apple, she quit her law firm.  Hence the unemployed part of our title.  We packed up our pug Alice and hit the road.  Now we live, well, somewhere in Europe.  I generally expect we’ll be on the move about every month or so, figuring out one spot at a time. 

Special thanks are due to our good friends Andrew and Helen, who got us Unemployed and Traveling as a very fun going-away present.  For our first week in Barcelona and Paris, Lauren swore she was going to set it up (but had no idea how).  She doesn’t like asking me for help with such things.  When asked how she was planning to get it rolling, she had a simple plan: call Andrew. 

I expect Lauren will do most of the writing here on Unemployed and Traveling.  (She’s the lawyer in the family after all.)  Lauren (@alicecaseface) and I will also be posting away on Instagram (which I was compelled to start using, because my life is cool now).  And @pug_hat, well, she speaks for herself.  I have no control over any of that. 

Dan