Category Archives: Vehicles

Fuso Update

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

Our Fuso is still in South America. We’ve had some issues with the American shipping company we contracted to ship the truck from Guayaquil, Ecuador to Long Beach, California. It has been a very challenging and stressful experience so far, …

Fuso Frame Break Repair Complete

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

Frame repair is complete. Shots from yesterday. Shots from today. Frame break area.   Crack area, reinforcement of passenger side to hopefully prevent a break on that side.   We are heading for the Amazon basin tomorrow where I hope …

Fuso Frame Saga Update

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

Our day began with a beautiful sunrise glowing on the snow capped volcano across the highway from where we were camped. We were in the parking lot of a hotel created from a hacienda built in 1555, where no less …

Just Another Day on the Road

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

  The day started like any other day out here. We got up, got around, had some coffee, tea and toast, and started out again, following our noses around Ecuador.Click here for the rest of the story: http://www.hackneystravel.com/ecuador/justanotherday.pdf .

Fuso Footprint

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

It was pointed out on a forum I participate in that while I am advocating conservation and energy independence, we live in a vehicle that is not all that fuel effecient. I took that as a valid observation and decided to …

Stuff-o-holic

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

  Hello, my name is Doug, and I am a stuff-o-holic. Click here for the rest of the story: http://www.hackneystravel.com/ecuador/stuff-o-holic.pdf .

Instant Karma

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

  “Instant karma’s gonna get you” I grunted and rolled over, but the knocks came again. “Knock, knock, knock!” harder this time. I crawled down out of the berth and checked the clock. “Hmmm, too early for Steph to be …

The Promised Land

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

After more than a month of driving chicken bus roads, where our typical day’s average speed hovered around 20 to 30 kilometers per hour (12.5 – 18.6 mph), it was heaven to be on the Panamericana cruising along at a …

Chicken Bus Roads

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

  One common denominator of developing country travel is chicken bus roads. No matter where you go in the world, if you get off the tourist trail and out into the places where the regular people live, work and travel, …

The Transit Stage

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

  We just completed a two day run from our last stop, Ollantaytambo, Peru, to what we hope is our last obligatory tourist activity in Peru, Nazca, home of the famous Nazca lines. On our trip here we covered 695 …