Now that the endless hours of study and the stress of the check ride are over I thought I’d take a look back and tally up the total cost of earning my Private Pilot’s license. Your mileage may vary. I took my first lesson on April 18th of last year and passed my check ride […]
Private Pilot License – My First Cross Country Solo Flight
You may not know it, but I’ve been working on my Private Pilot license since June. That’s right boys and girls, freewheelings.com will be taking flight in the not to distant future. With all of the training, studying and the business I haven’t had time to write about it as much as I’d like. Things […]
Copan Ruins, Honduras
We’ve seen Mayan Ruins from the Yucatan to Honduras. We’ve tried to be Selective and, with the exception of Chichen Itza, pick the more interesting and less traveled sites. Copan is probably the last ruin we’ll see on this trip and the perfect combination of the aspects I liked about the others we visited. For […]
The Great Guatemala Motorcycle Wreck – Part Numero Uno
We are fine. We actually don’t even have a bruise or scrape between the two of us to show for it. The same cannot be said of the motorcycle. As I mentioned in my last post Spanglish Me, we embarked on the journey over 90 miles of dirt from El Estor to Lanquin, Guatemala. I […]
Visiting Into the Wild’s Magic Bus
We made the hike to visit Into the Wild’s magic bus on Stampede trail outside of Healy, Alaska this weekend. The jury is out and the famed bus from the popular book by John Krakauer and movie by Sean Penn (Into the Wild) is still the subject of considerable controversy. Christopher McCandless himself has become […]
Ice Alaska, The World Ice Art Championships
The World Ice Art Championships at Ice Alaska is probably the single coolest thing that I’ve seen in Fairbanks this winter. Ice sculpting underwent a renaissance in interior Alaska in 1988 when organizers decided to revive the spirit of the 1930’s winter carnivals by flying in ice sculptors in from around the world for an […]