If you’re anything like me you just finished upgrading your site or setting up a new site using Genesis and a Studio Press Pro child theme. In this case News Pro. And I suspect that this will apply to many new HTML5 sites as well. You fired up Windows Live Writer, told it to download […]
Firing Bluehost–How I Doubled My Site Speed Using AWS and Other FREE Services
After over two years with Bluehost a very sad thing had happened to me and I didn’t even know it. I lowered my expectations of webhosting. It happened slowly, a gradual change that I didn’t even notice until one day this site taking 10-15 seconds to load was normal. Even worse, I almost let my […]
Google Translate Update – The World Just Got a Little Smaller
I brought a Spanish-English dictionary along to Columbia and I’ve opened it once, not for lack of need to find Spanish translations, but for the death of my smartphone battery. Travel hack advisory – Google Translate, even before the latest update, offered downloadable packages to allow for the use of translate services offline. However, the […]
Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza – Bullfighting in Manizales, Colombia
First, it is not the purpose of this blog to be or debate your moral compass. You certainly don’t want to follow mine. It gives you all kinds of faulty directions before finally pointing due good. I’m not here to pass moral judgment on the sport of Bullfighting. I’m here to bring you the facts […]
Manizales, Colombia – Mission Casa de Don Adam
I left Baltimore on the 29th of December for Bogota, Columbia. It seems like a lifetime, but I’ve been here a mere nine days. I took no guidebook, no map and didn’t know a soul in the country. The one thing I did know is that my buddy from Cordova, Alaska, Adam, had a cabin […]
Tipping in Mexico and Central America
First, if you’re coming down from the states you are just going to have to check all of your expectations of service at the border. Things work differently down here. At home, we’ll tip in excess of 20 or 25% for good or great service. Servers know this and cater to our needs accordingly. In […]
Whitewater Rafting the Grand Canyon – Master Packing List
Here’s the irony. A year ago this very week we were packing up the motorcycle for a five month trip across nine countries. To the left you’ll find a photo of the total of our gear. Yesterday we packed up the Honda Civic for the first leg of our trip to Arizona. We easily have […]
How to Get Moving with WordPress
A couple times a month or so I get an email or a message from someone interested in building with WordPress. They ask some similar questions and I thought I’d add it to our library here at freewheelings. I’m not going to try and sell you anything here. There won’t even be a single affiliate […]
What’s Next? Whitewater Rafting the Grand Canyon?
Don’t see why not? But’s let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Surely you must be wondering what we’ve been up to all summer. Whitewater rafting in West Virginia of course. Here are some of the highlights. We’ll get into the Big Ditch in a minute: First and foremost, it’s always good to see my Pops […]
Attention Central America – How Not to Screw Up a Martini
After five months of traveling through Mexico and Central America my favorite cocktail has become scarce. That’s not to say it’s not on the menu in just about every tourist zone we’ve encountered, but the martini abominations have ranged from confusing to simply undrinkable. I’ve even had waiters argue with me when I tell them […]