8 April 2009 (Wednesday) Sunny
Wow, another sunny and beautiful day, the desert was waiting, Phoenix, we were coming! The landscape and mountains along the road was very beautiful. We didn’t know what great danger was waiting for us.
The GPS route put us on a road that was blocked to traffic and so we had to turn around to cross a bridge. The wind was very strong. Oh my god! The horrible wind nearly blew up Solar Car’s right cover. GM screamed out and asked for help. TR, CLWC and CN rushed to hold the car. Fortunately, we got it through and started our journey again.
The wind was becoming very very strong. We stopped on Old Highway 80. CLWC found a bush and let TR take snapshot. They tried several times but failed because of the turbulent wind. We got beautiful landscape shots such as a milling company, stone store, horses and cows when we were riding along the road.
Driving along the freeway to Imperial County, was really amazing and awesome. Green Man set the video camera on Solar Car to film the scenery of the rocky roads.
At 3:40 p.m. we rode through Evan Hewes Hwy 98. The wind was becoming very turbulent. At 4:10 p.m. GM decided to pullover. It’s dangerous to ride along Grays Walls Road. We were trapped by a sand storm from 4:28 p.m. to 11:18 p.m. for more than 6 hours.
After protecting Solar Car with 2 covers, GM, TR, CLWC and CN were become sand rats. All our hair, eyes, ears, noses and mouths were full of sand. When we had sandwiches in our support van, we really got to know where you could find real sand……..sandwiches.
We waited until 11:18 p.m.when the wind became less strong; we rode to a nearby rest area and stayed overnight there. GM said, “many things youface are unexpected” the most interesting thing in life was what you can make of it.
Although we have to face so many obstacles during our journey each day, we still had to get it through in order to achieve our goal i.e. “To promote the use of clean and sustainable energy”.
Come and join us together and get our job done, 1-2-3 Solar Car!!
Diana:
Wow, another sunny and beautiful day, the desert was waiting, Phoenix, we were coming! The landscape and mountains along the road was very beautiful. We didn’t know what great danger was waiting for us.
The GPS route put us on a road that was blocked to traffic and so we had to turn around to cross a bridge. The wind was very strong. Oh my god! The horrible wind nearly blew up Solar Car’s right cover. GM screamed out and asked for help. TR, CLWC and CN rushed to hold the car. Fortunately, we got it through and started our journey again.
The wind was becoming very very strong. We stopped on Old Highway 80. CLWC found a bush and let TR take snapshot. They tried several times but failed because of the turbulent wind. We got beautiful landscape shots such as a milling company, stone store, horses and cows when we were riding along the road.
Driving along the freeway to Imperial County, was really amazing and awesome. Green Man set the video camera on Solar Car to film the scenery of the rocky roads.
At 3:40 p.m. we rode through Evan Hewes Hwy 98. The wind was becoming very turbulent. At 4:10 p.m. GM decided to pullover. It’s dangerous to ride along Grays Walls Road. We were trapped by a sand storm from 4:28 p.m. to 11:18 p.m. for more than 6 hours.
After protecting Solar Car with 2 covers, GM, TR, CLWC and CN were become sand rats. All our hair, eyes, ears, noses and mouths were full of sand. When we had sandwiches in our support van, we really got to know where you could find real sand……..sandwiches.
We waited until 11:18 p.m.when the wind became less strong; we rode to a nearby rest area and stayed overnight there. GM said, “many things youface are unexpected” the most interesting thing in life was what you can make of it.
Although we have to face so many obstacles during our journey each day, we still had to get it through in order to achieve our goal i.e. “To promote the use of clean and sustainable energy”.
Come and join us together and get our job done, 1-2-3 Solar Car!!
Diana:
Wow getting trapped in the sandstorm near Yuma was one incredible experience. The police came by 3 times to see if we were okay. They were worried because there are a lot of fatalities on the road, when people pull over.
We took a walk through the sand dunes during the storm and ended up by a river. I found out they shoot a lot of movies there. A few guys on dirt bikes came by to see how we were doing. We wondered if they were part of the people who track illegal immigrants.We got a police escort to the rest area 2 miles away when the sand died down.
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