Category: Countries
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La Tirana
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.hackneystravel.com/chile/docs/latirana.pdf .
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Fuso Units at Work
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. Click here for the rest of the…
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DG 080
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 exactly in others footsteps,…
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Fuso Units
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 the Fuso look not so…
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The Shrine
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.hackneystravel.com/chile/docs/theshrine.pdf .
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Relative Humidity
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 in the rain forests of…
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Market Town Saturday Night
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 a cardinal rule. A hard…
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The Boots
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 much time…
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Bigfoot Camper Berth Condensation
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.hackneystravel.com/docs/berthcondensation.pdf
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2008 April Photos Posted
Photos of our travels in April 2008 are now posted at: http://dhackney.smugmug.com/Travel-Photos-by-Year/2008/2008-04-April/ Notes: 1. If you’ve recently visited the photo site, you may need to force a reload of the web page (CNTRL and F5) to see the new thumbnails and links for March and April. 2. All photos after 10 February 2008 are GPS…