Category Archives: Travel

Fuso Units at Work

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

  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 …

DG 080

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

  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 …

Fuso Units

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

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 …

The Shrine

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

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 .  

Relative Humidity

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

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 …

Market Town Saturday Night

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

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 …

Pack List for Overland Expedition Vehicles

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

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 …

Where My Heart Lies

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

  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 …

The Boots

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

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 …

Digital Photography Meta Data Overview

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

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 …