Making the Perfect Espresso Near the Iraq Border

Editor’s note: Wired.com contributor Jeremy Hart is making a 60-day, 15,000-mile drive around the world with a few mates in a pair of Ford Fiestas. He’s filing occasional reports from the road on the gadgets he’s road-testing.

I hate to rave about any gadget now. Seems the minute I like something, it goes and fails on me.

The latest one to struggle with the vigors of the Fiesta World Tour is the Spot tracker.

It worked fine as we left Europe to cross the Bosporus for Asia. But with internet a hit-and-miss thing in places like Jordan (at the Movenpick ...

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