The Real Awesome Australian Adventure. Part 1: The End

We're done!*

Most of the team comes over to fill up the solar car after a very long drive without gasoline. If you look really closely, you can see joy on the faces of the regularly emotionless engineers!

Today, we rolled into Port Augusta after 2,722 km of solar power!!!!! We didn't end up in Adelaide because of a police-enforced regulation preventing the driving of solar cars from Port Augusta to Adelaide on the weekend. We have gone as far as we're allowed to travel on solar power. It's been slow - we've been having issues with the solar array, resulting in a low-placing finish. In a traditional race, we're in last place: we will be the last solar car to roll into Darwin. Nevertheless, more than half of the cars broke down or crashed, placing us fourth or fifth in our class (silicon solar arrays). So you might call it great success. Even though the car didn't perform as well as we would have liked, I can't get over the

HOLY SH*T WE CROSSED A CONTINENT IN A SOLAR POWERED CAR!!!!!!!!

factor. It's pretty awesome. Maybe I didn't add enough exclamation points. I did use caps again. Regular readers will recall that this means that something important has happened. Anyways, just for good measure,

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This will be a somewhat short post, as we're not technically done with the race. We have to trailer the car into Adelaide tomorrow morning. Eager log readers should expect more posts describing in gruesome detail how we singlehandedly battled MPPTs, kangaroos, flies, and Sasha on our trip across the outback.

Now for a smattering of photos of the solar car traveling at breakneck* speeds across the Australia. For lots more, check out the gallery.

*man it looks fast. It's traveling at around 40 mph. Apogee is still really really pretty.

all alone....all alone...all alone. There isn't much in the outback. Actually, the only interesting things there are solar cars. Which is why all our pictures are of solar cars. Because they're interesting.

Anyways, there will be many more posts; some humorous, others serious (ha). If you find anything that we write takes itself too seriously, send email complaints to lightenup@awesomeaustralianadventure.com.

*The race ends tomorrow. Also, for those who are old/wise enough to know this, the race never ends.

Stay tuned for the next enthralling part of the Awesome Australian Adventure!

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