Hello. My name is Iggy and I’ll be your guide today. Click here for the rest of the story: http://www.hackneys.com/travel/ecuador/theguide.pdf .
Fuso Footprint
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…
More Oil Info
Here’s some additional oil factoids: Source: DOE http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/sources/non-renewable/oil.html Source: DOE http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html
One Lap of America
PDF version of this document is here: http://www.hackneys.com/travel/ecuador/onelapofamerica.pdf Last year I met a European traveler in Argentina who spent six weeks in the United States a few years earlier. His six week visit gave him, in his opinion, total…
Parallel Worlds
The tailcoat was electric blue, and being pressed up against the car, covered the window. I’d seen something close to the tailcoat’s color in a peacock’s feathers, a shade less similar in a highland weaver’s threads, and…
The Hat Photo
I’ve been getting a lot of requests for a shot of me in the hat from the story The Hat Man, so here it is:
Stuff-o-holic
Hello, my name is Doug, and I am a stuff-o-holic. Click here for the rest of the story: http://www.hackneys.com/travel/ecuador/stuff-o-holic.pdf .
Polywogs No More
300 years ago in the Royal Navy, we would have been dragged through the ocean from a yardarm and nearly drowned. Even today, in the United States Navy, we would have been obliged to drink and eat unspeakable…
2008 September Photos Posted
Photos from September 2008 are posted here: www.hackneys.com/gallery/v/travel/2008/ Photos are all from Peru and include: Nazca Lines Chicken Bus Roads Highland villages and agriculture Cordillera Blanca & Cordillera Negra (White Mountains & Black Mountains) Reed fishing boats And more .…
Instant Karma
“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…