Hello Everyone,
And thank you to Chad for the kind invitation to take a look see at this innovative new site dedicated to wet shaving and related arts. I did take a look and, to my great pleasure, found a number of like-minded people some of whom I am familiar with from a different forum. Wet shaving came on stealthfully post retirement, blossoming into an obsession for me. I use a variety of DE razors and cannot seem to stop buying soap.
I was born, raised and educated in California. I am now retired from a 35 year career driving a desk. Prior to retirement, my wife and I lived in Walnut Creek, California near Mount Diablo. Every week or so I cycled up and down the South side of this mountain picking up my screen name when someone derisively referred to me as a Southsider (the North approach is slightly harder to climb though neither is particularly easy depending on pace).
In 2015, my professional career was firmly in the rear view mirror and the winds of change were blowing. We sold our home, cars and most of our belongings and downsized into an RV. We are now in our second RV towing a Jeep. Our home base is in Florida and we tend to spend Winters there. During the warmer months we tour the US and Canada. In 2016, we took our RV to Alaska through Canada. In 2017, we headed up to the Great Lakes.
Every year we park our RV in our RV port and head to Guatemala where we have applied for permanent residency. This June, I put together a travel kit for shaving which I took down to Guatemala, adding a clay lather bowl purchased in Antigua. As we were leaving Antigua to come home, the nearby Fuego volcano began erupting, the sky turned dark and brown ash rained down. I was very happy to get out of Antigua when we did and back to Guatemala City. Both my wife and I had problems breathing for a day afterwards--hopefully a temporary condition. I think we were lucky--over 90 people died in that eruption.
Best Regards,
Glenn
And thank you to Chad for the kind invitation to take a look see at this innovative new site dedicated to wet shaving and related arts. I did take a look and, to my great pleasure, found a number of like-minded people some of whom I am familiar with from a different forum. Wet shaving came on stealthfully post retirement, blossoming into an obsession for me. I use a variety of DE razors and cannot seem to stop buying soap.
I was born, raised and educated in California. I am now retired from a 35 year career driving a desk. Prior to retirement, my wife and I lived in Walnut Creek, California near Mount Diablo. Every week or so I cycled up and down the South side of this mountain picking up my screen name when someone derisively referred to me as a Southsider (the North approach is slightly harder to climb though neither is particularly easy depending on pace).
In 2015, my professional career was firmly in the rear view mirror and the winds of change were blowing. We sold our home, cars and most of our belongings and downsized into an RV. We are now in our second RV towing a Jeep. Our home base is in Florida and we tend to spend Winters there. During the warmer months we tour the US and Canada. In 2016, we took our RV to Alaska through Canada. In 2017, we headed up to the Great Lakes.
Every year we park our RV in our RV port and head to Guatemala where we have applied for permanent residency. This June, I put together a travel kit for shaving which I took down to Guatemala, adding a clay lather bowl purchased in Antigua. As we were leaving Antigua to come home, the nearby Fuego volcano began erupting, the sky turned dark and brown ash rained down. I was very happy to get out of Antigua when we did and back to Guatemala City. Both my wife and I had problems breathing for a day afterwards--hopefully a temporary condition. I think we were lucky--over 90 people died in that eruption.
Best Regards,
Glenn
