Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category
Monday, July 14th, 2008
Prior to departing for South America I collected a set of GPS waypoints from prior overlanders. They included service locations, fuel stops, points of interest and, most importantly, camp sites.
We like to find our own places, make our own discoveries and generally have our own adventure rather than follow ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Those of you who remember the post “How Big is Big” will remember that we try to express size in units other than arbitrary measures such as meters or feet.
Today’s example uses units of Fuso.
Yesterday we found something that was at least two Fuso units high. It made ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
You approach as any new pilgrim would after a long, long journey across the dry, dusty desert.
You approach with trepidation.
You approach with wonder.
You approach with reverence.
Click here for the rest of the story: www.hackneys.com/travel/chile/docs/theshrine.pdf
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
We crossed the border between Argentina and Chile at Chile Chico on 29 March 2008. We drove west until we hit the Carretera Austral and then turned left.
For the next 87 days we were in wet, foggy and chilly areas of Chile.
We spent a portion of that time ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
We broke the rule.
We knew the rule. We knew it very well. It was kind of hard not to know the rule since we wrote it ourselves.
It is a simple rule. A just a few words rule. An easy to understand, easy to implement rule.
It has become ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Introduction
This pack list is based on unsupported global travel in developing countries.
Developed countries have most of the resources available in the U.S.A. and Europe, so fewer of the spare parts on this list are required.
This pack list is based on full time overland travel for one year (six months ...
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
I am in a rural area.
It is a flat plain, with rich, dark, loamy soil.
The dirt here is dark, from cocoa to black – from merely laced with fertility to boiling with it.
The people here are friendly, open, rich in spirit and generosity. They are genuine.
The ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
We both wanted to buy real hiking boots before we departed the U.S. for this journey.
The task slipped down the To Do list until we found ourselves at REI a day or two before we flew out, sitting in the shoe department surrounded by towers of shoe boxes.
I’ve never spent as ...
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Sunday, June 8th, 2008
Introduction
Winston Churchill’s immortal description of 1939 Russia as “A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma” is equally true of the current state of digital photography meta data.
Most casual digital photographers never come face to face with meta data. They take their photos, they upload them to a ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
On 1 May 2008 we discovered major condensation in the berth area of our camper.
Click here for the story of diagnosing and fixing the problem: www.hackneys.com/travel/docs/berthcondensation.pdf
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