Julie and I are old school when it came to plotting our course across five continents during our Follow the Sun journey. We used a combination of fold-out maps, map books, guide books and the occasional reference from Mr. Google to plan each of our 755 days on the road. To supplement all that at a micro level, we often used our GPS – which we named Karen – to … Continue reading →
When we welcomed in the new year of 2018 from our secluded beach-side camp in Baja Mexico we never could have imagined what a spectacular year was ahead of us. We had a rough plan, more or less, of what we wanted to achieve during the year but turning that plan into a reality was one of the greatest experiences of our lives.
Continue reading →If you haven’t figured it out yet, I love spreadsheets. Spreadsheets hold all sorts of fascinating information, data, statistics, trends, averages, records, really cool stuff. I keep a very detailed spreadsheet on our travels, recording our movements in long columns and rows which add to our photos, blogs and memories that we’ve collected along the way. Here’s a snapshot of some of the data from the second leg of our … Continue reading →
Julie and I are pretty keen on maps. We’ve collected a large range of foldable paper maps, we’ve had map books, downloaded maps to our phones and used online services like Google Maps and Maps.me. Maps are fun, both for planning our journey and tracking our journey. Now that we’ve finished South America our map of this continent has a nice line across it showing where we’ve been but also … Continue reading →
