SPOT Tracking, Africa 2014
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Author: juvander
Summer of 2014, Preparations
Days until this years big adventure starts: –9. Almost all needed gears found, one or two minor ones still hiding somewhere. Yesterday cleaned and verified that my water filter works. I have been using this now two years and continue to use as well. Much cheaper to get clean water …
Summer of 2014, The Plan
This summer has been a bit quiet on the planning side, only now I have been able to get some sort of idea what I want from this summer. Some guidance has been set already before: Route is via Tallinn Malaga is one stop for few days But everything else …
Bluetooth MP3 player for my Motorbike
For the past years I have been using my navigator as a MP3 player, but I have now listened so many times all of my MP3 songs that it was time for a new solution. After searching I found my self looking into Google Music service and it’s offline capabilities. …
Synchronizing Garmin BaseCamp databases between Windows and OS X
One of these things that I needed to sort out as my transition from Windows to OS X laptop was the ability to plan my trips when on the move. For that purpose I was originally planning to use good old Garmin MapSource under VMWare on my OS X, but …
Day 34: Back Home
As weather was looking horrible, we decided to take a shortcut via Tallinn to Helsinki. We took via smaller roads on Russian side towards Pechory border crossing, rain stopped finally once were approaching it. Pechory border crossing itself was nothing special, normal queuing with few cards. Road on Estonia side …
Motorcycle / Russian / Travel
Day 33: Towards Velikiye Luki to Meet Harri
Had again early morning, breakfast at 07:00 sharp. Had a bit issues to find the breakfast room, but eventually found it. It was just across the hallway and looked like an normal hotel room door like all the rest of them. I was there first one to arrive, chose second …
Motorcycle / Russian / Travel / Ukraine
Day 32: Towards Russia – Again
For this day there was not going to be anything special planned, just driving ahead to get back home. I had some miscalculations for distances due to poor planning and seeing what type of roads I was going to be driving so for today I was going to miss my …
Motorcycle / Travel / Ukraine
Day 31: Leaving Crimea towards Russia
Tried to have breakfast at 07:00, but took a bit longer before they were ready with it. But eventually got that and it was the best one on this trip, had pretty much everything in it. So yes, not much need real food for rest of the day with this! …
Motorcycle / Travel / Ukraine
Day 30: Enjoying Crimea, Ukraine
This day started without a hotel organized breakfast, so needed to create my own. Good that I still have some of this with me. I have not managed to use all of them since in very few places there has been this water boiling system. My plan was to drive …