So, we’re back, we’ve slept in our own beds, life is good and the car is now listed on ebay. Azemute is busy writing lots of hilarious content with ‘How (not) to’ guides, I’m staring 50gb of video and photo data in the face and trying to turn it into something respectable. As part of that, my first step (usually while massive amounts of data are flowing around my network to various storage areas) is to upload all of our GPS tracks to sportstracklive. This time around, I thought it would be interesting to first combine all the tracks together, to give a complete overview of our entire journey. Unfortunately, in places, the GPS reception was spotty, so if you play the live track, the little arrow will sometimes bounce into a new section of map after GPS is restored, and, we met a few issues where the iPhone would decide it was tired of recording GPS and go to sleep for brief periods. Those issues aside, this track really brings home just how ridiculously far we travelled. Sadly, the tool I used seems to have failed to include the last part of our voyage from Lille > London, but, that pales in insignificance against the rest.
The subject, by the way, is correct – we have travelled the equivalent to 1/10th the circumference of the earth; or, the distance of NYC -> LA – almost 4000km.
I highly recommend you hit the map button (unless you like unlabeled satellite view) & the play button, and set the speed to something like 192x. Then just zoom out a few levels, and sit back and enjoy the hilarity of our journey across Europe. Paris is especially interesting, as Azemute put it “it’s like a tiny mouse, in a huge maze”. Our first campsite is just after we pass Frejus and St Raphael, which by my calculation puts our time spent in the car before pitching a tent at 46 hours and 45 minutes – 48 if you don’t include the time spent on the ferry. I’ll throw up more interesting stats about our trip later; but now, I’m going back to editing video.
