floundersgreatadventure

Every so often people ask me where is Flounder why is it still named Flounders great adventure? Well, 12 years ago I moved from the United States to Bello Colombia. This was done for a couple of reasons. First, my wife and her family lived there and I had two grown nieces and that was about it for family. Second I wanted to retire and Colombia made it possible. Living in the US I would still be working trying to make ends meet. So, 12 years ago this month I packed up and got Flounder all his shots and left for Colombia. Flounder was 10 years old at the time. At my niece’s suggestion, I started a blog and since Flounder had a habit of sitting in my lap when I was on the computer I named it Flounders great adventure. It started out as a travel blog since we were exploring all the sights in the area. I then added history lessons for the areas we visited. As time went on I started to make political observations and comments. Which of course came to a head when Trump ran and was elected. You get a different view when you live outside the US. I still wrote about other things but I always signed off as Flounder and Fats. When Flounder got to be around 19 he started to show his age. I got a dog to make what I knew was coming easier for me. The dog a Labradoodle name Antonia surprised me by making friends with Flounder. They would share my bed, but as life would have it shortly after that Flounder’s body would give out and I had to put him to sleep. I like to think he hung around long enough to make sure I would have a friend to help make it easier. I decided I would keep the name of the blog the same to honor him. I did change how I signed off to FATS and ANTONIA. Four years later Antonia either ate or was bitten by something and died suddenly she was 12 and I hope she was happy while she was here. I was heartbroken and still am. We still aren’t sure exactly what happened. But a few days later my wife’s son sent me a Photo of a young dog up for adoption. I found out she had been in the shelter for almost two years. We were told it was because she was timid. Well, I decided to adopt her we went to the shelter and Lucy was anything but shy. That brings us to the present. I have decided to keep the title of the blog the same and if it confuses people tough shit Flounder was my friend and companion for 19 and a half years so we’ll honor that by keeping his name on that blog. Lucy a 3-year-old German Pincher will be helping me now. So that’s the story of why it’s called floundersgreatadventure.com. This is FATS and LUCY saying CIAO from Medellin, Colombia.