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2008 March Photos Posted

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

Photos of our travels during March 2008 are now posted at: http://dhackney.smugmug.com/Travel-Photos-by-Year/2008/2008-03-March/  

Fuel Log

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

I added our fuel log to the route map. You can click on the link at the top of the page to access the log or scroll down to find it. The fuel log summary is at the top of …

Rare Rewards

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

The rewards of travel are many. Some are small and some are big. And some rewards, the rarest rewards, are both at the same time. Click here for the rest of the story: http://www.hackneystravel.com/chile/docs/rarerewards.pdf

Service Log

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

I added the service/repair log for our expedition vehicle to the route map page. Click the link for it at the top of the page or scroll down. Route map and service log are here: http://www.hackneystravel.com/index-routemap.htm  

How To Create Route Maps

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

Garmin GPS to Google Earth For this task I use GPSBabel, a great little donateware utility, to generate the Google Earth KML files from GPX files created by Garmin Mapsource. The procedure for creating the GPX files from Mapsource is …

Route Map Photos Update

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

  You can get an idea of the places where we are camping by viewing the photos on the route map waypoint markers. I added 800 pixel size photos to the route map waypoint markers to make the photos more …

Route Map Update

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

    I updated the route map to include photos and comments for every waypoint after 2 December 2007. Basically, this means that almost every waypoint since we left San Diego for South America now includes a photo of the camp …

Follow Our Travels

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

  Route Map I added a route map of our travels to the web site. Click here for the route map: http://www.hackneystravel.com/index-routemap.htm Use the zoom control on the upper left corner of the map to zoom in on a specific location. …

2008 January & February photos posted

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

  We are back in Chile and finally got a good internet connection, our best in a couple of months. I uploaded January & February’s photos and added some to the Fuso collection. Photos are here: January: http://dhackney.smugmug.com/Travel-Photos-by-Year/2008/2008-01-January/ February: http://dhackney.smugmug.com/Travel-Photos-by-Year/2008/2008-02-February/ …

The Operator

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

  If my foulies could talk, I’m sure they’d have expressed mixed feelings. Sure, they were grateful for finally breathing fresh air again after being packed away since sailing across the north Atlantic, but this was fresh water running off …