Category Archives: Travel

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 …

Northbound on Ruta 7

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

04/09/2008 01:52:37 GMT 04/08/2008 21:52:37 Local It’s very dark now, but still raining hard, as it has for the last week or so. The work crew left a couple of hours ago. The hoe operator, who spent his time in …

Tough on Tires

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

Here’s a shot of one of our rear tires with a newly mounted spare behind it. Total mileage is ~19,000 miles / 30,578 kilometers, with ~5,000 miles / 8,047 kilometers in South America. Most of the wear is from the …

Narrow Passages 2

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

More recent narrow passages…

A Place

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

  I know a place For the rest of the story, click here: http://www.hackneystravel.com/chile/docs/aplace.pdf

To Tell the Truth

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

We were westbound on the Chile Chico road when we saw them. We’d been through the rough stretch from town to the mine and the subsequent narrow, single lane portion that clings to the cliffs along the south side of …

Best New Photo Gear

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

For this trip I left my trusty Manfrotto carbon fiber tripod at home. I wanted to get a tripod that was better designed for low shots, but I wanted to stay within the Manfrotto family so I could continue to …