June 5, 2006: End of the trip

Today I arrived back home. The last 8 months were a wonderful time that passed by way too quickly. That does not mean that this website will not be updated anymore, though. There’s still loads of photos to be posted and when I find the time I also plan to write up some of my travel experiences and publish them here. So stay tuned!

May 12, 2006: Back on the road again

At long last, the sailing adventure is over and I have touched firm ground again. I have to admit that it was much less fun than I had hoped and expected, but I guess that’s life. More on that later. Plan for the last three weeks of my trip: take in as much as possible of Northwest Argentina and Bolivia.

April 15, 2006: Back in Chile – Sailing Trip on the Pacific Ocean

In the last few weeks I have travelled a great distance. From Tierra del Fuego to Buenos Aires and on to the huge Iguazú Falls in the extreme Northeast of Argentina, only to return to North Patagonia a week later.

The reason: I got the chance to take part in a sailing trip from Valdivia, Chile, to Robinson Crusoe Island, about 1000 km off the Chilean coast in the Pacific Ocean. While I will be offline for approximately the next 2 weeks, there will still be daily updates of the homepage with new pictures. So stay tuned!

April 14, 2006: Itinerary now also in text form

If you do not want to click through the map of my itinerary or simply can not activate Javascript: the itinerary is now also available in text form.

April 10, 2006: Stability Isuses

You might have noticed that, during the last week or so, this site was either incredibly slow or even completely down. I apologize for that.

The reason: Ruby and Rails run best on the web server in a mode called FastCGI. In the last few days, FastCGI used to crash every few hours or so, making the site totally unstable. I had to switch back to plain old CGI, which means that the web server has to start a fresh Ruby process for every single request it receives. Since it can take a couple of seconds for Ruby and Rails to get up to speed, this is painfully slow.

The guys at Site5, my web host, finally managed to reconfigure FCGI so that it does not crash. Everything should be fine again.

February 11, 2006: Launchtime, at long last

More than 4 months, since 7 Oct 2005, I have been travelling now. Again and again had I thought to be so close to launching the whole thing, but, as always, developing took more and travelling left less time than expected.

To finally get something online, I buried the plan to write a detailed travelogue for the time being. Instead, I will concentrate on photos, from time to time supplemented by additional short comments. Moreover, you can follow my itinerary on the map.