Hello Y’all,
I am Alan Evans. This is my blog. It will be random. It will be fun (at-least for me).
I am an avid traveler, outdoors-man and reader (and now infrequent amateur blogger). There are many places that I would love visit, but when I don’t have the time or funds to go somewhere yet in person, I find reading to be an amazing short term substitute until I can acquire the requisite time and money.
I love camping and hiking. I am an adequate fisherman and a poor hunter, but I am game to try my best at each whenever possible.
I am a big supporter of people giving these activities a try and in turn getting the opportunity to gain some respect and insight for the animals whose lives’ are taken for our consumption of their delicious meats.
I am a huge nature nerd, specially when it comes to seeing animals out and about. Walking along the ocean or on a forest path and seeing a cool fish surface, a colorful bird fly by or a cute bunny scamper away, to me is an unparalleled delight.
I support doing our best as individuals and as a society to protect natural spaces and creatures for the good of nature itself and for the continued enjoyment for both us today and for those who will come after us.
I am a business and finance guy by training. I enjoy coming up with and researching business ideas. I am not so good at actually implementing them yet, but I hope to pursue some small time ventures soon. I also enjoy creating spreadsheets for all kinds of random planning, whether that be my monthly budgets, trip plans, fantasy football drafts or weekly shopping lists.
I love to be active, and playing sports has always been a big part of my life. A few minutes of throwing around a football or shooting some hoops is always a great way to upgrade a day. My current favorite physical activities are weight-lifting, rock-climbing, snorkeling and Frisbee. Luckily I can have a great time participating in all four of these without having to be particularly good at any of them.
I like watching football, mostly because I really enjoy playing fantasy football in my two long term leagues with some amazing friends. I find it a great way to stay in touch with a good group of friends who rarely get to see each other in person, but stay connected through the competitiveness of this silly game.
I love podcasts. Check out my favorites here!
I have never been much of a writer, so I am excited to use this blog as an opportunity to practice this vital skill as well as an opportunity to learn some website/blogging/affiliate marketing skills. I plan to share what I learn along that way to help other’s who might want to start a blog like this some day. FYI getting started is super easy, so just do it and learn as you go. Getting a domain from Bluehost and setting up a free blog on WordPress is pretty simple.
I plan to write a mixture of articles and posts on a variety of subjects to practice writing in different arenas. I find writing factual posts easiest, so I have started with those, but I hope to eventually branch out into more creative posts. (check out my first attempt at poetry)
I hope you find my blog somewhat entertaining and I really hope that some of my posts provide some information to the already crowded interwebs that can actually be useful to other people. While this blog is really to scratch my own itch, I postulate that others may share some of my interests.
There it is, a little about me, what I might write about and why this blog is taking up vital internet space.
Have fun and try to learn a thing or two.
Cheers!
FYI: If you click through any of the Amazon affiliate links on my website and purchase ANYTHING (even if it’s not that exact item) during that session (24 hours) on Amazon, I get a small kickback. I want to honest about what these links are and why they are part of my blog. I include these links as a way to help support funding my website and maybe some it will help fund my future adventures too!