Round the world
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After leaving Sequoia National Park, we headed across the central Californian valley towards Monterey, stopping for lunch in Fresno. Approaching Monterey we started to get excited, seeing the golden hills of California reminded us strongly of our time living in the Bay Area. Then we hit the bank of fog coming off the Pacific and […]
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Las Vegas pretty much met my expectations (which were admittedly very low). After coming to the city 1-2 times a year for around 20 years for Autodesk conferences, it was strange coming back with my family. We initially struggled to get a room at late notice: between the Black Hat security conference, a huge basketball […]
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Utah is an absolutely incredible place. We've spent the last week or so discovering some of its State and National Parks. As mentioned previously, we used Dead Horse Point State Park as our base for the first few days, from there visiting Arches and Canyonlands National Parks. We then hit the road and headed towards […]
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I enjoy certain aspects of camping. I won't say it's my favourite thing in the world, but there are things about it that I appreciate. Things I like: Chats around campfires The lack of showers Drinking a beer or two (also around the campfire) Waking up in nature Seeing our kids playing together without electronics […]
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Our plan – as you can see from our website – was to spend some time in Grand Teton National Park before breaking the journey south to Bryce Canyon in Salt Lake City. That plan changed in Yellowstone: while in Mammoth Hot Springs we met a really nice family from Oregon who had some interesting […]
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We arrived in Bozeman from Toronto (having changed in Denver) fairly late on Thursday night. After picking up the rental car – and eating a quick pizza in Belgrade – we zoomed over to West Yellowstone, the town closest to the western-most entrance of Yellowstone National Park. The kids really only had a few hours […]
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For the last year and a half I've been reporting into an Autodesk Research team based mainly in Toronto, so it made sense to include that city in the itinerary of our round-the-world tour. This did mean, however, that almost inevitably my wife and kids would be left alone for the majority of our time […]
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In the first parts of this series we saw a basic, embedded map and then added information windows and labels. In this post we're going to overlay data being recorded by a tracking device to show our progress in real-time. This was made pretty easy thanks to Garmin's MapShare service: our Iridium-connected inReach Explorer+ device […]
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Several people have looked at our trip's itinerary and have reacted in a similar way: Washington DC New York West Hartford Toronto … "Wait a minute… why on earth are you going to West Hartford?" It boils down to this: one of my closest friends lives there. Duncan and I met during our first week […]
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So far our big trip has gone well: the trip out via the UK went smoothly – we had a 5-hour layover at Heathrow Terminal 5, as we had to collect and re-check our bags (our ticket from Geneva was separate from the main round-the-world itinerary, it seems) – but time passes quickly in a […]