The Copper Canyon with questionable maps. Part one.

We left with a Map. Well, OK, that isn’t entirely true. We left with a scrap of paper with the names of a couple of towns we would need to drive through written on it. Since we were in the neighbourhood, we thought we might as well pay a visit to the famous Copper Canyon […]

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Mexico

Our final morning in the USA was not off to a great start. “So. Have you seen the passports?” Well, the last time either of us remembered seeing them was two days earlier in a hotel room in San Luis Obispo. Several hours drive away, on the other side of Los Angeles. Several deep breaths […]

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Adventures with Javier

A lot of the time on this trip Emma is the chief Navigator. But sometimes Emma takes a nap and lets Javier, our Spanish-speaking, slightly scatterbrained GPS take charge of the navigational guidance. When we are in a big city with lots of freeways and on-ramps and off-ramps and seriously confusing spaghetti junctions, this can […]

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Last day riding in Bolivia

At the western edge of the Salar de Uyuni we luck out with Pocket Earth finding helping us find a way onto a road without having to push through a lot of sand.  We ride up onto the pier just out… Read More ›

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Review Part 3: Navigation Apps on Android

The final part 3 of our review of Android Offline Navigation Apps. Skobbler/Scout vs MapFactor Navigator: routing results, driving a route, routing errors.
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Review: Road Test Navigation Apps on Android

Our review, part 1, of Android GPS Offline Navigation Apps. Performance and bugs of Skobbler/Scout & MapFactor Navigator, menus, settings and address search.
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TRIP 2 – GPS track.

  Trip 2 – GPS track.

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15 Things You Never Want To See On Your GPS

Now we’ve done a lot of off roading, in Africa the easiest way to reach a destination may not be direct, it could involve a couple river crossings, or consist of driving through some dried up riverbeds, well you get the point. We’ve encountered a few disturbing messages on our GPS throughout our travels that […]

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VZ 4 – El Gigante

We are starting to get a feel for Venezuela and we like it. There’s good food to be found and the people seem to be pretty cool. We spent a fair amount of time today driving in circles through the outskirts of Ciudad Guayana since our GPS is totally useless here other than for indicating […]

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The Interactive Route Map is now live!!

For the best part of a year I have been working on a wa […]

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One year (a post with graphs)

Since as a few days ago it has been a year that we left San Francisco, I thought it was time for a post with graphs. These are all the places where we got gasoline. It shows all the places…
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