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Africa - Encounter Overland Expedition 1979 Southbound - Maps and Record

 

 

Maps

 

 

 

 


 Record of Trip

Record of out trip in spreadsheet form, with some dates and places estimated. All assumed mileages are based on approximate routes and Google Maps, or similar, mileages between places and not based on odometer readings.

No SatNav tracking available.

The timings, start and finish of the day, and lunch time are purely guesswork. Doing the trip again, I would fill the spreadsheet in daily, but things have changed since the trip.

The country column is the country you wake up in in the morning.

Navigate using the arrow keys, and look at the menu icons on the bottom right corner.

I reiterate, this is not contemorary, it is compiled more than 40years after the events. It is bound to have some errors.

 

 Also I have created an ESRI StoryMap. Thoroughly recommend that you look at this.

If you can't drag yourself away from this site, the StoryMap is also below, but better by following the link above.

 

 

 

 

 

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News Flash

Change of host Sept 2023

 

Change of host Sept 2023

 

In the begining of August 2023 I transfered my ivanhurst.me.uk sites, including this one from 123-reg to IONOS. It was meant to be a simple task. However, that was to to be the case. The reason for the move was primarily the hugh increase in price that 123-reg was applying regarding email boxes. Previously, the upto 500 of the boxes were included in the various hosting packages I had. Now they were going to charge for each mailbox based on size, and as far as I could make out, this was going to cost me nearly £2,000. This was not acceptable, and I did not get satisfactory answers from support. So I turned of all the auto renews and stated to move sites and domains accross to IONOS.

Travel data problems

 

Travel data problems

This is where it starts to get a little technical.

The site is built on a content management system, CMS, using Joomla. Joomla is moving forward and version 3.10.?? is being discontinued. Future developments are for version 4.??

Similarly, PHP 7 is being replaced with PHP 8.

Part of the migration is relatively simple, I have already changed to a new template which works on the new platforms.

However, some of the helper applications, which work within Joomla are not yet ready.

Fabrik is one of those applications, if fact a significant 'Joomla Custom Website Application Builder'.

Refresh 2021

 

Site refresh Easter 2021

I decided to give the site a bit of a refresh over Easter 2021 and install a new template and some additional functions. One of the things I didn't like about the old site was the delay in text appearing which probably meant some people left before the content appeared. This has been corrected now.