Video Blogs from Day 2!

Wendover, UT to Colorado Springs, CO
753 miles
Approx 12-13 hours drive

My Epic Road Trip, Day 1

On Monday (Jul 5) I began a road trip across the country. My first leg: Mountain View, CA to Wendover, UT. Drove 659 miles, left Mountain View at about 8:40am and arrived in Wendover UT around 7:30pm. Except I had changed time zone, so it was actually 8:30pm.

Here's my video logs from the first day. :)

Day 1

I set off at 8:40am this morning. Left my sunglasses in Clar's car and discovered last night didn't bring my toothbrush. But I had another pair and Clar had an extra one.

11 hours, 657 miles, about 25 wheat thins and 4 full bottles of mineral water / apple juice later, I arrived in Wendover, Utah at around 7:40pm or so. Except Utah is on Mountain time so it was actually 8:40pm.

The scenery was great. Too bad I'm too tired to upload anything. Maybe tomorrow.

The Epic Journey

Is about to begin. Tomorrow I start my cross-country trek in this very fully packed car:




And that's only the trunk. The backseats are filled to the brim, with just enough space left for me to see out my rear window. I'm delivering this car to New York for my friend Will, and taking the chance to meet up with a few people on the way. The first leg tomorrow: Mountain View, California to (hopefully) Salt Lake City. Whee.

I love driving. Pray that doesn't change after this trip... :P

Words of wisdom from a dog...

http://comics.com/peanuts/2010-05-08/

My first a cappella gig in a while...

Solomon (another ex-Mendicant) got a few of us to sing the background to Michael Buble's Everything, one guy per part, while he sang to his sister at her wedding yesterday.

It's not super in tune, but it has its good stretches. =) And THANK GOD we started in tune (our soundcheck start was pretty darn disastrous).

Acronyms Shmakronyms

I'm working on a consulting-style research paper on Tesla Motors, and briefly on some of their competitors in the electric vehicle market.

All these acronyms of electric vehicles are driving me CRAZY. There's EVs (electric vehicles), BEVs (battery electric vehicles), HEVs (Hybrid electric vehicles), PHEV (plug-in hybrid electric vehicles), and E-REV (extended-range electric vehicles, which is basically GM's way of hiding the fact that they're essentially producing their version of a plug-in prius by pretending they're making a whole separate genre of vehicles).

arrrggghhhhhhhhhhhh. Why does everyone feel this need to make their technology 'official' by creating their own acronyms?!?! Didn't know this disease wasn't unique to Singapore...

:P

sorry. Had to vent.