hese are all the maps for my travel from 27th July to 15th Sept 2009. They are dated according to UTC time.
First the main overview of the trip in USA, with two problematic spikes, it’s generally quite accurate.
And then the one of Hong Kong.
UTC is Universal Time Coordinated. If you know what GMT is, it’s the same, except updated with leap seconds. It’s today’s term for GMT.
So the same applies. Singapore and Hong Kong are UTC +8, San Francisco is UTC -8 or -7, Lincoln -6 or -5 depending on daylight savings. Whatever times you see on these maps, you gotta add or subtract those hours to get the local time.
I screwed up on some of them, forgetting to delete the previous days’ records, forgetting to turn it on. And you will notice when it’s underground or in a built up city like Hong Kong, you’ll see spikes to nowhere where it loses the signal.
This is brought to you courtesy of Google Maps and my now trusty GPS data logger. And oh yes, you’ll be happy to note that my gallery is now fixed, the maps are showing proper locations of where the photos were taken.
I love my GPS data logger and most of the time, it works indoors as well. So, where you see very detailed squiggly lines are probably indoor locations – like me browsing the shelves of shops, or visiting the toilet. I also have some days where I’m just walking around
I drove over 4500 miles in 3 cars – Toyota Corolla, Pontiac G6 (a nice car with small boot and faulty door lock and remote) and a terrible Hyundai.
We covered the states of Nebraska, Iowa (casino), Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Nevada, Arizona, California.
And here are the day to day logs:
27th July 2009 map Singapore to San Francisco
28th July 2009 SFO – Minneapolis St Paul – Omaha It was fun to look at the airplane route. Many times, we look outside the airplane window and have no idea where we are.
29th July 2009 map Omaha to Lincoln
1st August Lincoln I don’t really have a sense of place in Lincoln, so it was good to know exactly where my sister’s wedding took place (Holmes Park), Chinese dinner at Peking Palace (Cherry Hill Blvd)
2nd August 2009 Lincoln (a bit messed up) Here we snuck into Iowa at Council Bluffs
3rd August 2009 Omaha – Salt Lake City – Antelope Island State Park – Pocatello
4th August 2009 Pocatello – Twin Falls – Mesa Falls – West Yellowstone – Old Faithful
4th August 2009 Yellowstone (Lower Loop)
5th & 6th August 2009 (forgot to delete the 5th) Yellowstone National Park
7th August 2009 Yellowstone Upper Loop
8th August 2009 Gardiner – Red Lodge (a bit messed up) This includes what I consider to be the best drive of the whole trip – Beartooth Highway – beautiful and challenging to drive. Up at these heights, I hit hail (soft balls of snow, not hard ice). But I just found out, it can also snow.
9th and 10th August 2009 Red Lodge – Cody (night) – Grand Tetons – Jackson
11th August 2009 Jackson – Afton – Montpelier – Paris – Garden City (Bear Lake) – Logan – Ogden
12th August 2009 Ogden – Park City – Salt Lake City
13th & 14th August 2009 Salt Lake City – Las Vegas (night) – Zion National Park
15th August 2009 Springdale & Zion National Park
16th August 2009 Zion National Park – Bryce National Park
17th August 2009 Ruby’s Inn – Bryce National Park
18th August 2009 Bryce Canyon via UT12 – Burr Trail – Capitol Reef National Park – Torrey This includes a side trip off our course to the Burr Trail, a very beautiful drive.
19th August 2009 Capitol Reef National Park – Hite Overlook – Natural Bridges National Monument – Moki Dugway – Goosenecks State Park – Mexican Hat This includes what I consider the second most challenging (interesting) drive, the Moki Dugway. If you look at the map and zoom in to a squiggly splotch before the turning to Goosenecks State Park, you can see how curvy the road is. Not only is it curvy, it’s unpaved.
20th August 2009 Mexican Hat via Kayenta, Tonalea, Tuba City – Grand Canyon National Park
21st August 2009 Grand Canyon – Williams – Seligman – Peach Springs – Valentine – Hackberry – Kingman (Route 66)
22nd – 24th August 2009 Kingman – Oatman (Route 66) – Bullhead City – Laughlin – Las Vegas (two nights) – Barstow – Santa Monica Beach – Westwood (Los Angeles) Okay, here, I didn’t download the maps for many days because The Mirage Hotel charges for Internet access. We completed this section of Route 66 at Oatman via the legendary Sitgreaves Pass which is known for its narrow crumbling roads – the original route hacked away by those on the gold trail. But after driving Beartooth and Moki Dugway, this is nothing.
25th August 2009 LA up the PCH (1/101) to Morro Bay
26th August 2009 Morro Bay – Harmony – Monterey – Concord
27th August Concord & Walnut Creek – (forgot to delete the 26th) We took it easy today.
28th August Concord – Brentwood – Concord Picked fruit in Brentwood. It was a very pretty drive there, keeping off the highways.
29th August 2009 Concord – Lake Tahoe – Carson City – Lake Tahoe There was no u-turn back after a mis-directed turn and we ended up in Carson City.
Lake Tahoe – Olympic Village – Truckee – Lake Tahoe Our second Winter Olympic site visit in this trip. The first was in Park City, UT.
31st August 2009 South Lake Tahoe – Placerville – Folsom – Vacaville – Concord
1st Sept 2009 Concord – SFO – Alcatraz – Concord
2nd Sept 2009 Concord – Berkley – Emeryville (Ikea) – Concord
4th Sept 2009 Tennis game and country club. (Incomplete)
4th Sep 2009 Concord – Golden Gate Bridge – Concord
5th Sept 2009 Concord – San Francisco’s Mission and Castro districts
5th – 7th Sept 2009 Again, forgot to delete. 7th was Labour Day. Went out to Pleasant Hill for Chinese dinner.
7th Sept Concord Walk Here, I take another easy day with a walk around the neighbourhood shops. It’s interesting how I think I’m walking straight, next to the road, but actually, I don’t walk very straight at all, do I? This map is a perfect example of the GPS logging me with every move inside the shop, including my trips to the toilet. Maybe it’s not that accurate indoors, but it does show I’m in there.
9th Sept 2009 Concord – Napa – Yountville – Concord
10th Sept 2009 Concord – SFO – Hong Kong My flight from San Francisco to Hong Kong is perfectly logged
The maps below are the trips I made in Hong Kong, and I didn’t realise how far and wide we’d traveled till I saw these maps.
12th Sept Hunghom – Central – Mid Levels – Mui Wo (Lantau Island) – Tai O (Lantau Island) – Tung Chung (Lantau Island) – The Peak – Causeway Bay
13th Sept 2009 Hunghom – Tsim Sha Tsui – Sham Shui Po – Choi Hung – Sai Kung – Mong Kok – Hunghom
14th Sept 2009 Hunghom – Central – Wan Chai – Mongkok – Kowloon – Hunghom
15th Sept 2009 Hong Kong – Singapore Finally, a complete flight logged.
My cameras are now set to UTC time too. This enables me to sync my photos based on time and date with the GPS logger to place the photos and not worry about changing time zones.