About Us

Graduation, Kim had blue hair

Kim and Chris are two mechanical engineers trying their best to make the world a little bit better. Chris hails from St. Louis, MO while Kim grew up in Alexandria, VA - just outside of Washington DC. They met as undergrads at the University of Tulsa where they bonded over late nights in the lab.

Wedding

They began dating during their junior year and stayed in Tulsa after graduation: Chris to pursue his masters degree and Kim to work as a project engineer at a construction management firm. They adopted a cat named Naboo and got involved with their community teaching sunday school at their local Catholic parish - Christ the King. They became engaged on February 15th, 2015 and married on November 28th of the same year at St. Brigid's parish in Amherst, MA. The location was chosen for the bride's elderly grandparents; Kim wore her grandmother's 64 year old wedding dress.

Naboo

This is Acro Yoga

Kim is a yoga teacher, belly dancer, and wine connoisseur while Chris is an avid cyclist, a fair machinist, and likes a good beer. Both enjoy camping, travel, cats, and acro yoga. For their honeymoon they went to Italy and got to meet the Pope. They also ate mozzarella pretty much every day.

While they are abroad Naboo will be living with a friend.

Why Catfish Gone Walking?

The name of this blog started as a bit of a joke. In college Kim did some sustainable engineering work in Cambodia with our university and a group called SENEA. One of the projects SENEA was working on at an orphanage there was a hydroponics system. There was a little pond at the orphanage, which was occasionally populated with fish, which they wanted to harness to grow plants on a hydroponic raft. At the time the water in the pond was quite foul and they were told all of the fish had moved next door to a cleaner pond in the neighbor's yard. This is when they learned about walking catfish. Kim thought it was very cool. Her friend Maria, also on the trip thought it was very creepy. As such Kim took the opportunity to frequently send her videos such as this one after their return. 

Later that year, when Kim started this blog about her travels she felt the metaphor of a fish out of water was apt. All travelers are in a liminal state of being, and it is from this liminal state that we are best able to experience not only the culture of another, but our own. The name is now doubly apt as we are now headed back to southeast Asia, where the species is from.