October 2011

G’day mates! In case you didn’t know, CalSol team also has a twitter for you insta-update fans! We have been tweeting like little birds since arriving down under. Follow us there: www.twitter.com/berkeleycalsol Stay tuned to the blog for longer updates, but make sure to follow us there if you want real-time updates about what we’re […]

Hello CalSol Enthusiasts! My name is Abhay, and this is my first time writing a blog post! I haven’t had time to write them on the drive up from the south, but now that we are in Darwin, I have plenty! Friday, October 7th was a big day for CalSol. We checked in to the

Of the two nights we spent in Port Augusta, we worked through most of both. The day we arrived, we had had a team meeting and decided that we would attempt to adopt what we were calling the “new” electrical system in place of the one we had used throughout most of the summer. A

Hello everyone! This is Jessica, Nicole, Abhay, and Martin from Scout, Maroon 5! Just in case you’re wondering, this is the same Jessica as the one from Captain BlueBear in the past few days. Everyone has been car-hopping, so here I am, in Maroon 5 Due to the lack of technology in this car in

This is Recon checking in. Jessica has some business back in the caravan today so instead we have Steven Rhodes, the team’s camp manager filling in for her today. He has been in charge of making sure that the team is fed healthy food to keep us all moving, in addition to making sure everyone

Hello from Mike, Marc, and Jessica in Captain BlueBear! We stole Mike from the rest of the caravan mostly because we needed a cameraman to snap all the beautiful sights we’re seeing and his pictures for the blog posts in general (FYI, Mike is the mediaman for the trip). Since we were already packed up

We would like to add an addendum to what happened to us after we left Coober Pedy yesterday, and we believe the following video pretty much sums up our evening.  We sincerely hope you enjoy this short film as much as we do. For the record, we changed the tire and fixed things up in

Hi there, It’s Marc and Jessica again (I know right)! We have finally arrived in the Outback! Although its hard to say exactly when we did so because for some reason the border of this huge expanse isn’t marked by a huge billboard saying “Welcome to Nowhere”, I am pretty sure when you can drive

Hi all, Thank you parents, friends, and strangers for giving us so much positive feedback and support in the past few days!  We will keep up with the blogging as much as we can, and we are going to seriously miss internet so much after we head into the Outback… We have been working on

G’day mates, Last night in Port Pirie, we stayed at the Rangeview Caravan Park.  The owner Vern was very kind to us; besides offering us a discount for the night and letting us check out late (for us to work on getting Impulse ready for the road), he is also storing our huge fiber glass