Parque Nacional Los Alerces, Argentina You can travel to the ends of the earth, but you just can’t escape quality Iowa manufacturing…
Fuso Photo Albums
For those who just can’t get enough of our rig, I created some photo albums of shots of the rig in action here: http://www.hackneys.com/gallery/v/travel/fuso/
Captain Orr’s Archive
While moving some data around to prepare for our departure overseas I came across the columns I wrote for the magazine Data Management Review. Since I shut down my last company’s web site, there has not been a full archive of…
San Diego fires – update 8:00 AM PDT 24 October, 2007
The shore of Mission Bay San Diego, California, USA 8:30 AM 24 October, 2007 In response to inquiries about our status and the situation here I expanded distribution to our full travel mailing list. My original status message follows this…
2007 Fuso BEV U.S. Test
We’ve spent over 4 months testing the rig in the U.S. prior to shipping to South America. The main page that contains links to all the route, results, writing and photography for this trip is here: http://www.hackneys.com/travel/index-2007-trips.htm You can see…
Desert Island Books – Round Two
Back in January I asked you to answer the question: If you could only take a backpack full, what books would you take to a desert island? I got quite a few responses, most of them within days of…
My Favorite Cubs Game
One summer afternoon, sometime in the mid-80s, we were sitting around the kitchen table at my friend Floyd’s place. It was the 2nd story of a typical Chicago brick three flat in Wrigleyville. The back door was open, the flies…
Force 8
December 20, 2005 The Bight Bay Norman Island a.k.a. “ Treasure Island” British Virgin Islands “What?” I yelled. Steph’s words were garbled and I had a hard time hearing her over the shrieking wind through the rigging and…
Malcolm Smith’s Return to Baja
Please see the PDF document at: http://www.hackneys.com/docs/MalcolmSmith-2004-Baja-1k-06.pdf
e-Postcard from The Kingdom of Bhutan
April 20, 2004 e-Postcard from The Kingdom of Bhutan The archer slowly drew back his arrow, his hands steady, the bamboo bow distorted into a widemouthed sideways U. Unlike modern compound bows, which actually get easier to pull the farther…