Category Archives: Vehicles

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. …

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…

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 …

The Duck

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

8 March 2008 We did our first bit of Ruta Cuarenta (Route 40) today. Surprisingly, a short section was paved, but more than a hundred miles was its normal washboard, dirt, gravel and rock.       For the rest of …

Narrow Passages

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

   

The Gas Man

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

  One of the challenges of world travel is procuring fuel. Generally gasoline and diesel are not a problem unless you are in an area of spot shortages such as Patagonia, where we are now. Propane, however, can be a …

South American Waypoints

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

    I created a Garmin GPS data file containing South American waypoints from five sources. If you know of any other web sources of overlander’s SA waypoints, please email me and I will add them to this master file. The …

The Falcon Sanctuary

Posted ago by Douglas Hackney

01 February 2008 12:06:37 GMT     I was a car guy most of my life. I became car aware pretty early. By the time I was eight or so I was making model distinctions. I blossomed into full scale …