What is the motivation for this blog? Good question. My brother John is riding his bicycle from San Francisco to Boston starting in late August 2017. I am riding with him for the 1st two weeks of his tour. A few folks have asked me if I was planning to keep a blog about the ride. At first, I thought I might just use Facebook to document my trip, but the more I thought about it I realized a blog might me allow to post details about the ride in a more organized way.
Also, an IT professional, I thought a blog might be a good way for me to learn more in a hands-on way about the “cloud”. I will spare you all the nerdy details, but for those who are interested, this blog is self-hosted in Amazon Web Services US East region and uses WordPress software.
So what’s up with the name of blog? I would like to say it is in honor of the recently passed major league baseball trading deadline… as in ”traded for a player to be named later”. But I have to fess up it is pretty much a lack of creativity on my part!