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My flight to Frankfurt will start in 90 minutes, from there we'll fly non-stop to San Francisco. At last! More when I've got net access again ;-)
I went to the travel agency yesterday and finally booked the plane tickets, RV, rental car and hotels for my group for the vacation in January. Much like the 2005 vacation, it will be an RV roadtrip with two RVs, a couple of days in San Francisco and of course attending Further Confusion. Unlike that infamous trip, we'll have the two crews split into the infamous FIA Jägermeister (tanidareal, bigbluefox, Jaryic and nachtfuchs) who love to sleep long, and an early bird crew (f_u_r_v_a_n, Kayjay, lynard_, tioh and me) who will be up early in the morning -- in my case only due to jet lag, I have to admit. This allows the FIA Jägermeister to relax and the Early Birds to actually see all the attractions. :-)
After fighting my way through various undocumented features and weird bugs of Google Earth, I've managed to generate a .kml file which connects my vacation photos with the location logged by the GPS receiver at the time. Which is quite cool, as I tend to forget where exactly I took a photo...
While bigbluefox, cheetah_spotty, fuchsi, Jaryic, nachtfuchs and tanidareal are on their eastcoast roadtrip (have a lot of fun, folks!), I remembered that I logged the GPS data of the trip of Kayjay, lynard_ and me through some Western US states in January and that I hadn't managed to convert the data before to something Google Earth would understand. So I wrote some filter and conversion scripts this weekend (turned out that GE didn't like some bogus data logged. Not gpsdrive's fault, it just dumps everything from the GPS receiver to a file...)
I have to apologize for the long delay, but I was quite busy the previous days and still have to catch up on a lot of things... But without further ado, here's the rest of my report, behind the cut:
Behind the cut: the second week of this year's holiday, and the first week of the roadtrip through the West. I didn't dare to write anything while being on the trip itself as even though we occasionally had WLAN connectivity, it was quite unstable.
Behind the cut there's a round-up of the first week of my vacation...
So, what had happened the last two weeks?