Overland with Kids

During our shakedown trip, we used this device (Find Me Spot Satelitte Tracker) to keep friends and family up-to-date with our location in virtual real-time linked via google maps and found it excellent - easy to use, lightweight and portable. It also has emergency provision, email/mobile contact facilities and password protection if needed. You can find out more about the product by checking out  www.findmespot.com.  The only thing we didn’t like was that it retains co-ordinates for only 7 days when we would have like co-ordinates to be retained permanently as a record of our route. UPDATE: A new product called Spot Adventures has been launched which does this and also allows download of photos to each location - cool!  Looks like we’ll be upgrading shortly. We’ll re-launch the satellite tracker again shortly before we leave during 2010 so watch this space!