Hello, everyone.

My inaugural post is to let you know what to expect on this blog.

For now at least, I’m choosing to keep my identity concealed even though many of you already know who I am. For privacy, I don’t want this site to come up in search results using my name. I would appreciate it if you didn’t use my name or the names of any of my family members in any comments. Just call me The Gargoyle.

I came out as gay to my wife last spring and to my three adult kids last fall. For the past several months, I have been ostracized by all of them. Oh, and I’ve been unemployed for the last year. I’m about to embark on a new adventure, moving from the San Francisco Bay area to New England for the purpose of finding a job where the cost of living is lower.

I’m scheduled to depart California in a small U-Haul on Sunday, March 18. That’s when I’ll start blogging my road trip across the country. I’ll also blog about building my new community of friends and (I hope, I hope, I hope) coworkers in New England.

In addition, I’ll blog about my hobbies, passions, random thoughts and whatever else I feel like.

I hope you’ll register and comment (respectfully and positively) whenever you want.