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…
Route Map Photos Update
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
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
Route Map I added a route map of our travels to the web site. Click here for the route map: http://www.hackneys.com/travel/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
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: http://www.hackneys.com/gallery/v/travel/
The Operator
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
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
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
More recent narrow passages…
A Place
I know a place For the rest of the story, click here: http://www.hackneys.com/travel/chile/docs/aplace.pdf