Last night we had a guest appearance by the one and only Ben-Gmunt, T-bone Matthews and Heather who joined us for chick pea curry. As many of you know Ben was the navigator on our Driving Home expedition. He now lives and works in Hereford as an outdoor pursuit lecturer and as a result his work revolves heavily around navigation. After supper Ben led Chrissy and I through a fresher course on using a GPS and mapping in remote regions.
We are using the same Garmin GPS V (acquired from Ebay) that we used on the expedition but we still need to source our maps, so we used our old maps from Africa to practice with. Ben was very thorough as always and Chrissy and I came away feeling confident that we will be able to navigate easily during our journey. Having said that we still have to practice what we learnt last night before we hit the open road.Colin
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