WealthBoy at Prosper Days

Today marks my first trip ever to the West Coast. Although contrary to my intuition that my trip would be uninteresting to others, including regular readers of this blog (my thanks to both of you!), I’ve decided to dedicate a post to to my expedition. I must say that I have been greeted with open arms. I have met with fellow natives and residents of the great state of Florida, residents of the great states of Hawaii and Alaska, as well as those that reside in the home of Prosper Days, San Francisco California. Although I am known (although not very well) as WealthBoy, I have found myself in the habit of introducing myself with my birth-given name.

Regardless of my introductions, I believe that Prosper Days will prove to be a productive and exciting trip for me. I only wish my better half could be here as well as our beautiful young ones. Unfortunately, we decided the trip to be much too taxing on them, and they would be better off back at home with Mom. Instead, we decided to tax Dad by sending him on the redeye back from San Francisco to Philadelphia from 10PM PST to 6AM EST (5 hours in the air). Ultimately I will arrive from Philadelphia to Jacksonville at 10:20AM the following day (8.5 hours travel time).

The story isn’t much better from there. In my haste to secure my trip from Jacksonville to San Francisco, I failed to secure transportation from the Jacksonville airport back to my home upon my return home. Much to my chagrin, after I booked my flight I came to learn that my wife had previously scheduled a play date from 10:30 until 11AM. It takes about a half-hour to get from our home to the airport, so that means it is likely I will be home no earlier than noon.

Being the analyst that I am, I surmised that WealthBoy(.com) does not yet provide sufficient income to merit a cab ride back home, so I am more than glad to await for the family to complete the play date to go pick up Dad. Later that day we will make the two-and-a-half hour drive to Orlando for our soon-to-be two-year-old. To be honest, it’s not really a big deal but I’m doing my best to make this story as interesting as possible. I would do anything for my family, especially if it involves having a good time with Mickey Mouse.

All of this in the name of peer-to-peer lending. RateLadder asked if I would be blogging about the trip. I told him that I was having a very hard time with the blogging. Despite his encouragement it is hard for me to come up with original material. I told him that my best (well…. most popular) article (Gas in the U.S. is Cheap) actually began as a repost/commentary on an article about the U.S. Auto Market being in recession. So how the hell did I come to conclude that Gas in the U.S. is Cheap?

That’s a good question that at this point I would have a hard time answering. Perhaps it may be obvious to you, or perhaps some other day when I am not wrought by jet lag and oversized west-coast margaritas I might be able to answer that question. Actually I only had one oversized west-coast margarita, one shot of excellent tequila, and many beers, but again… That’s another story.

I’m still finding my place as a blogger as well as becoming a dispenser of good information. I’ve found that the most interesting bloggers have a propensity perform both acts exceedingly well. We shall see how I ultimately perform in my endeavor. I suppose I summed it up well when I told RateLadder, “I guess most bloggers become truly successful (bloggers) when they are able to integrate their blog well with their life.” Up until now I have not done that, but perhaps beginning with this post I will make a greater effort to do so.

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