Blog on Hiatus

26 June 2010

As you may have guessed by now I have very limited access to the Internet and we do little but sleep and work on the boat.  Unfortunately, I’m going to have to put the blog on hiatus until I hit the mainland again.  All is well and I look forward to telling the tale once I’m [...]

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Heading to Sea

19 May 2010

I don’t have as much time as I’d like for this post.  I just landed a job on a fishing tender out of Cordova, Alaska and I’ll be heading to sea in an hour or so.  I picked up my first Alaska Commercial Fishing Crew license as well.  An interesting summer is in store.
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SEO for Travel Bloggers – The Fundamentals of a Link

12 May 2010

In the first post of this series SEO for Travel Bloggers – Crafting Keyword Specific Posts I talked about On Page SEO (Search Engine Optimization).  I’d recommend that you start there as it is the foundation for this post where we are going to be expanding out to touch on Off Page SEO and the [...]

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SEO for Travel Bloggers – Crafting Keyword Specific Posts

10 May 2010

I am diverging a little from the general theme of things here at freewheelings with a series of posts on SEO (Search Engine Optimization) fundamentals for travel bloggers.   If you’re here solely to read about my adventures and want to skip over the tech talk I won’t take it personally.  I have a very [...]

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Flying Sloths – The Mythical Creatures of Kernerbal Island

10 May 2010

Kernerbal Island has finally been located and the home  of the infamous flying sloth uncovered.  Nesting high in the treetops of this uninhabited South Pacific Island dwells a creature of mythical origin.  For many years its precise location remained protected by a secret brotherhood known as the “Knights of the Turner Brethren.”  For if the [...]

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World Travel With… The Lonely Planet Bloggers

6 May 2010

I neglected to announce that some months ago freewheelings.com was accepted into Lonely Planet’s blogsherpa beta program.  Blogsherpa features a handpicked batch of the world’s best travel blogs syndicated into lonelyplanet.com’s destination pages.  For instance, if you go to the Lonely Planet’s Fairbanks page you’ll see two articles listed from freewheelings.com on the left [...]

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Tidepool Colisium

3 May 2010

Here’s yet another little gem from Cordova, Alaska.  Out at the end of the road at Hartney Bay you can walk along the shoreline of the Prince William Sound at low tide.  It’s not sandy beaches, but a craggy, rocky sort of shoreline that gives home to all manner of tidepool creatures.  You never know [...]

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Nenana Ice Classic Tripod Goes Live!

24 April 2010

On Sunday, April 25th a wire will be attached from the top of the 30 foot tripod to the watch tower on shore.  The tower will be manned around the clock from Sunday until the official breakup on the Tanana River.  For the history and premise of the contest you should check out my original [...]

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Large Scale Biogas Digesters in the UK?

20 April 2010

A pilot program is going into place this summer in Oxfordshire using anaerobic biogas digesters to provide for the natural gas needs of 130 homes.  If the experiment gets satisfactory marks it will lead the way for  a large scale biogas digester infrastructure in the UK over the next few years.  The UK is politically [...]

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Ships of Old Alaska

17 April 2010

I’ve been digging around the Internet and the library for a few days now pursuing my own interest in the great ships of Alaska’s history.  The information is startlingly scattered so I have set about creating an account of the boats that have been a part of Alaska’s discovery, boom, gold rush, fishing industry, tourist [...]

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