Thanks to all of you who have shown support for our endeavor - it's great to see the encouragment from Norway, Netherlands, Italy, and across the USA. This was a major influence in my decision to participate.
The call last night was most encouraging, and i'm excited to get started down to Jersey tonignt. A few more thoughts:
- note that the CNN Money headline story is "Can a Tesla Model S make it from Washington D.C. to New England without riding on a flatbed truck?" - the answer is a resounding yes - we now know what we're doing is newsworthy, and we should be able to attract attention with at least 6 Telsa doing the trip in a show of passion for the technology and company
- We'll be planning the final route in Wilmington tomorroow. I'm going to lobby strongly to take the Lincoln tunnel, go cross-town with a brief stop in Times Square, and then over the RFK rather than the GW - it would be good to attract some attention in Times Square - perhaps we can alert a NY News Station or a Times competitor - and show support for Elon, the company and technology
- Finding a hotel in NJ that is accommodative of electric vechiles is not small challenge; when making the 1st inquiry, the typical reception is 'are you from Pluto' - Hilton, Hyatt, Marriott - all the same. Finally found an enlighted front desk at Homewood Suites in Somerset - who is willing to rope off a stop for me with 110 access (note: one hotel did have charging stations by NEMA 5-20, for which i don't believe we have an adapter)
- Thanks to teslaguy for arranging for the philly news to meet us in Wilmington - that should be fun
I can't wait to get started!!