Introducing our newest communication/safety device/toy, The SPOT Messenger!

We purchased this little guy for a couple of reasons. First of all, he allows friends and family to check our whereabouts on GoogleMaps. This is a fun feature, but it also allows all of you who care about us to feel at ease, knowing our location at any given time. In addition to being able to track our journey on GoogleMaps (which is pretty darn cool), he has a feature that also allows us to call for help or notify a search and rescue company in the event that we get into serious danger.

Time and travel to remote areas will determine if this was a good investment, but the idea is great and we are hopeful that it will work on our journey! According to the service map on their website, we should get coverage during most of our journey, even in the Sahara! Towards the end of our trip, however, coverage may get spotty.

Check back soon, as we hope to create a newly designed map on Our Route page that will combine our planned route with the live updates from the SPOT.

I tested him out last night while at the Milford Drive-In movie theater in western Massachusetts. You can see where we were by checking our SPOT map page!

More on the device soon, but we are pretty excited and wanted to share!

18 Days until we leave London for Cameroon …