From Polar Bears to Penguins – Driving North to South across the Americas
Posted in Before the Drive, Lifestyle on Jun 10th, 2007
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The Man |
Burning Man – Festival in the desert
Burning Man will be the springboard for our big trip. It is staged every year on Labor Day weekend. Started on a beach in San Francisco, it found its current home in the Nevada desert. The authorities didn’t appreciate people burning an effigy on a public beach.
Posted in Before the Drive, Lifestyle on Jun 9th, 2007
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Shreesh |
Neena sends out the link to friends & family. The obligatory statement of purpose.
The purpose of this blog is to document our long voyage traversing the North and South American continents. It is to stay in touch with our friends and family back home in San Francisco, in our ancestral homeland of India, and those we meet along the way. It is to communicate with our future selves.
Posted in Before the Drive, Technology on Jun 4th, 2007
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Bug! |
It is an utter and complete surprise to find bugs in the pre-alpha version of the blog.
A cursory inspection revealed that the links from the info windows on the google maps page were rendering into the iFrame and not loading a new page.
The solution to this was to replace the href’s with a teeny bit of JavaScript to make it work, but if I did that it would break the KML for Google Earth. Rock (me) Hard Place.
Posted in Before the Drive, Technology on Jun 3rd, 2007
Getting the site to support Google Earth and Google Maps presents some challenges. After much travail the battle is won.
Posted in Before the Drive, Car Stuff on Jun 3rd, 2007
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Quixote’s lift |
Bull Bars and Winches – Air Horn Alarms – Cargo Barriers and Compressors – Batteries, Inverters and Fuel tanks – Quixote gets a lift