Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category
Friday, August 8th, 2008
I updated the conversions spreadsheet and added it to the main travel site.
The conversion spreadsheet automates conversions between U.S.A. and metric measurements for:
Length
Weight
Pressure
Volume
Liquid Volume
Area
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
This was our view this morning.
Cusco, Peru.
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
The Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) is one of the largest flying birds in the world with a wingspan of up to 10.5 feet / 3.2 meters and weighing up to 33 lbs. / 15 kg. It is a soaring bird, only flapping its wings about once an hour and unable ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
I went down to the market and sat down on the curb.
I asked around about who was holding but no one was talking.
Click here for the rest of the story: http://www.hackneys.com/travel/peru/docs/elojo.pdf
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
The air was so thin our breaths came in deep, raspy gasps.
The wind whipped us with frigid blasts direct from Antarctica.
The sun was setting.
We knew then we left our base camp too late.
We’d already climbed thousands of feet but were short of our goal.
We were ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
I updated our route map to include our camp sites from 2008-04-20 to 2008-07-23.
To look at a particular area of our route use the zoom control in the upper left corner of the map. Click and drag on the map to position it.
To view information about a camp site, click ...
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Sunday, July 27th, 2008
For 391 years no outsider walked the passageways.
For 391 years no outsider touched the walls.
For 391 years no outsider saw the interior.
Click here for the rest of the story: http://www.hackneys.com/travel/peru/docs/roomofwakes.pdf
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Posted in Religion, Cultures, Travel | 5 Comments »
Saturday, July 19th, 2008
10:15 AM
I was sitting at the table outside the gas station using their WiFi to finish our monthly finances when I first noticed it.
It was something on the underside of the truck. It looked like we picked up a branch somewhere and it hooked underneath with the end towards ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Every year there is a festival at La Tirana, Chile.
La Tirana has about 250 full time residents.
Over 10,000 people come to La Tirana for the festival.
This year, we were two of those people.
Click here for the rest of the story: http://www.hackneys.com/travel/chile/docs/latirana.pdf
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
We visited the world’s largest open pit copper mine at Chuquicamata, Chile today.
While we were there we had the chance to see the trucks referenced in the post “Fuso Units” at work.
The mine uses 94 of these trucks. 60 are Komatsu and 34 are Liebherr.
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