Bye Texas, Hello Alabama

It was a hard decision to make, leaving family, friends, and home for a promising new job in a city 600+ miles away. The job was exactly the type of work I want to be doing. It’s new, challenging, and cutting-edge. The town is certainly smaller, about twice the size/population of Lubbock. We miss visiting family on a regular basis, our favorite restaurants, and our comfortable home. We moved into an apartment close to where I work and once the house sells we will look into buying a house in Madison. A few of the restaurants we desperately miss are Pot Belly’s, Free Birds, Genghis Grill, and a number of Tex-Mex places. We’ve tried about five Mexican food places and only two of them were good. A few of the things I’ve learned so far are:
1. They don’t serve hot sauce and chips, they serve salsa and chips.
2. Use any available bottled hot sauce to mix into the salsa.
3. Mexican food and Tex-Mex isn’t the same thing (pay attention to what they say they serve).
4. A buffet of Mexican food is just gross.