Snowshoeing & GPS

I got a neat little gadget a few weeks back that lets me track my GPS coordinates every few seconds. This may sound pretty geeky, and it is, but the great part about it, besides being able to see the route we took snowshoeing in Kananaskis on the weekend (above picture), is that I'm also able to geotag all the photos taken during that time. Basically, the GPS data logger and the camera are linked by their time stamps and with a little software each photo is tagged with coordinates so they can be viewed in Picasa or flickr on a map.

Pretty cool I know! So hopefully I'll be able to tag most of my South America photos and be reminded years later (or next week) where I took them.

South America 2008!

Hola!

The planning has started and departure is only a few weeks away.  I'll be updating this blog from time to time instead of mass emails.  Hopefully I'll have some stories to keep your interest and even some pictures if I can figure out how to post them.  There are some older posts from a previous trip to Europe on this blog so feel free to look through those if you want. 

A brief itinerary of my trip:

Toronto - March 1-5
Chile - March 5-25 
Argentina - March 25-April 1
Brazil - April 1-12
Argentina/Bolivia - April 12 - May 1
Peru - May 1-14
Toronto - May 14-18

August 2005 - February 2008

Two and a half years have gone by since my last entry here and although most of you will know what I've been up to over that time I'll give a brief synopsis for those that don't.

August 2005 - after returning from my two month Europe trip I proceeded to look for work around Toronto, branching my search out to Western Canada in January 2006. I had a brief part-time stint at the GAP during that Christmas and my clothes folding habits have changed ever since.

From March 2006 until now I've been living in Calgary - working at an engineering firm called EBA Engineering Consultants. I've been doing mainly Airport Engineering there and have had the chance to go to Iqaluit in October 2006 for a couple weeks as part of one of our projects.

During this time I've been able to do a bunch of things:

• Travel to England, Wales, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Montenegro in May 2007 with the family (Photos)
  
• Climbing in the Rockies
• Snowboarding in the Rockies - Lake Louise, Kicking Horse, Sunshine, Norquay, Revelstoke