Today, I turned in the keys to my apartment after moving all of my belongings into storage. I’ve got all my travel gear and am living wherever the heck I feel like for the indefinite future. This month I’ll be hanging around Colorado trying to get some camping, hiking, and mountain biking in before I head… Continue reading It begins
Author: Michael Arestad
Gearing up my Jeep for adventure
I want to make sure that I’m pretty well prepared for any trouble I get myself into along the way. My dad and I installed a few things over the past couple months to get my Jeep in top shape. Here’s a quick rundown of what we have done so far. The first thing I… Continue reading Gearing up my Jeep for adventure
Installing a Zeon 10s winch on a Hard Rock bumper
I always tend to do a bit of searching to find various walkthroughs and videos when installing something new hoping to save myself a bit of headache later. In this case, there wasn’t much out there. I found a few sets of instructions (none of them official) and a single video (a little helpful, but… Continue reading Installing a Zeon 10s winch on a Hard Rock bumper
The Mountain Lamb Society
A few days ago, I along with a few friends of mine put together a bit of a mountain experience. We put on an asado. For those unfamiliar, an asado is a South American barbecuing technique. The event that put this whole thing in motion was the birthday of Josh’s business partner. Jeremy, Josh’s brother, decided… Continue reading The Mountain Lamb Society
Prepping for adventure
I travel quite often because of my job and I love every minute of it. I love it so much that I’ve been thinking about “going nomad” for some time. This means that I would give up my apartment and hit the road staying with friends, couch surfing, using airbnbs, camping, etc. In June, my lease… Continue reading Prepping for adventure
Top 10 Delightful WordPress plugins
There are enough WordPress plugin and theme listicles out there to match a single day of Buzzfeed-generated articles (probably not), but I think it’s time we took a good look at some of the truly inspiring plugins out there. Note: I have “extensively” tested these plugins on my local test site… and by “extensively” I mean… Continue reading Top 10 Delightful WordPress plugins
What is the WordPress dashboard for?
Right now, the WordPress dashboard is my least used and most visited page in the admin. I don’t know the history of why it was made and the decisions about it along the way. It seems like the why might be “because we needed a place for users to go when they logged in” and… Continue reading What is the WordPress dashboard for?