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This site exists to advocate finding the middle of nowhere; the place where you can park on the double yellow line, eat a sandwich and contemplate where the hell you are on the map.  We encourage you to go out and put yourself into situations that become the stuff of legendary stories.  Have a look around and enjoy.

Panoramic Photo Section Added

Ubehebe_Crater.thumb.jpg I've added a section dedicated to Panoramic Photography.  So far, I have three ready to go including Ubehebe Crater and Lake Elsinore.  I have a lot more staged on the server already so look for more images to come in the near future.

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Maps Section Now Live! PDF Print E-mail
Written by Daniel Hienzsch   
Friday, 23 May 2008
Map Room Live I've finished the nuts and bolts of bringing interactive (somewhat) Google maps to Motoescapism (Motogooglescapemaps).  Using various plugins and tools from several magnificent developers, I've created an area that allows me to publish customized maps with place markers and routing.  You can find the Map Room under the Galleries menu item above.  The first map is now live in there; it is a preview map of the route I'm going to take on my western US sport touring ride in the upcoming weeks.  The idea being that for each of my journals, I'll now be able to supplement it with a map that will include the more interesting places I went with placemarkers all laid out.  The only thing I'm still struggling with is how an opened placemarker is getting formatted.  That's all CSS junk and wizardry that in the intervening months since I last really did this sort of work, has atrophied considerably.  I'll fix it when I get back... from Montana!!!!!!
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One of the most ready memories I have of Germany is Der Wasserturm in Mannheim .  When I was four, I remember walking around the edges of the fountain and marveling at them. We had nothing like that back home in Napa.

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