Relocating to Tennessee
Living in New Jersey for a lifetime, the end of my career as a Purchasing professional comes to a halt on June 30. St. Laurie and I both look forward to semi-retirement. Neither of us wants to work full-time any more, but we both know we’re going to continue to work at least on a part-time basis as we are both used to having schedules and goals to achieve. So we both intend to spend less time working and devote more time to other interests since we no longer want to obligate ourselves to long hours, long commutes, and worn-out routines we have lived with for over 40 years now. They were mostly good years, but now we’re ready for a new lifestyle.
One thing for me, this means more time to focus on college football. Going to games, planning trips, game schedules, meeting up with friends, updating and upgrading this website, and keeping up more with the ongoing stories behind the scenes rather than tracking prices and trends of raw material prices as I do now for my current professional strategies. That equates to 8-12 hours more per day of newly found freedom. Believe me. Time is on my side – finally!
Location. Location. Location.
In addition to more time, the move to Tennessee gives me different options and travel opportunities being closer to the heartland. I always tell friends who ask ,”Why Tennessee? Why Nashville?” One of the main reasons I tell them is its location. Most places we like to travel to are within a day’s drive, or less than a two-hour flight, and I’ll have the time to do that now. Games in Texas, Florida, and Boston, closer to our kids and extended family and friends, give us places to stay tied with other reasons to visit.
From another perspective, there are some schools, FBS and FCS, within a couple hours drive from where we will be living. These offer me new places to go without the high cost of travel now, especially now that we’re on a retirement budget. We’ll miss friends and great times we enjoyed living in NJ, but we look forward to the new opportunities Tennessee offers us in many aspects of our personal and family lifestyles. I look forward to new adventures to be enjoyed as far as my college football interests go. Also, Nashville will attract many friends to come visit us for music, festivals, sports, and other attractions they will come to see.
With our relocation, you’ll note many new venues and FCS teams we look forward to seeing this year for the first time. Additionally, you’ll see we’ll keep our ties to regular favorites like Penn State and Navy as well as the Army-Navy game. We’ll be closer to our buddy Jim “Bug” Harton to drive out to Winston-Salem to see his Demon Deacons play while we enjoy some Bourbon together! Planning to spend Christmas at our new home and having our kids join us, we even have two bowl game in Tennessee already slated on our pre-season, tentative schedule. Usually we wait to see what bowls we’ll go to, but these are two good ones.
Push past 2020!
We look forward to another great season for collegefootballfan.com, especially now as we reach beyond Covid-19. Check back here for further progress as I try to improve this website with more time I can dedicate to this passion I have for college football. Check out a very different schedule below compared to what we’ve done in the past. Many new places to go and teams to see. Can’t wait! Click here for our 2021 Collegefootballfan.com Schedule.