How I Published A Review from the Road

Wasn’t planning on this.

That’s why they call it an emergency.

While spending a nice Saturday with family in Arizona, the phone rang. An emergency was calling us to California to take care of some family matters.

I was in the middle of writing a review.  It needed to get published, but our 7 hour road trip had to begin first.

How to finish it up? More on that in a moment.

The post contained text, screenshot, and a video.

How I Published A Review from the Road

The Elements of the Review

Text and screenshot are pretty straightforward. The video was a little tricky.

Video: The original video was created a day prior while I was a bit under the weather, so it wasn’t as up-tempo as it could’ve been. It was also too long. After sleeping on it, I decided to cut the video down, remove the audio track, and add my own audio. It was time consuming, but I felt better about the final product.

Road Preparation

Knowing that bandwidth would be a challenge while on the road, my pre-hit the road goal was to finish the video edits, render, and get it uploaded to YouTube (I used Camtasia).

Mission accomplished.

On the Road

Laptop closed and packed. We were heading west.

Now my goal was to complete the post before the laptop battery was exhausted. (A nice built-in deadline for any blogger, right?)

After getting settled in, I broke out the laptop.

Connectivity: I was able to connect by tethering to an Andoid phone that was in the vehicle. Very easy to do, simple as connecting to a wireless network.

After spending some time refining the text, I imported the YouTube video into a custom video player (allows for post play redirects and more, see our easy video player review for details) and embedded the video on the post.

I must say, it was a little strange to be in the middle of the desert, travelling 75 MPH, seeing dropbox sync in my system tray, while rugged mountains go by in the background. (Ehem, NO I wasn’t driving, but in the front seat).

Final Thoughts About Blogging While on the Road

Not used to blogging under the gun, but everything seemed to turn out well. As I often say, it really doesn’t matter what I think…feel free to visit the post yourself and let me know what you think. It’s here, Evergreen Business System review.  Sidenote: The trip to California for family was quick, but productive. Another mission accomplished.
Photo credit: photo was taken while on the return leg of our trip.