Drove up California state route 1 from Santa Barbara to Morro bay, Monterey, and Santa Cruz before running out of daylight and switching to 101 for the rest of the way up to San Francisco.
http://picasaweb.google.com/anders.e.e.wallin/PacificCoastHighway#
After Grand Canyon we drove all the way to Kingman, AZ. On day 4 of the roadtrip the Prius rolled back west via Barstow, Victoville, San Bernardino, and towards the end a slow drive through a gigantic LA with both very poor neighborhoods and very rich ones, plus everything in between. The contrast between all the wilderness/desert and the endless LA city blocks is stark. The day ended with a drive up to Santa Barbara.
Pictures from day 3 of the roadtrip:
I will write more about day 2 of the roadtrip when I have time. For now, only pictures here: http://picasaweb.google.com/anders.e.e.wallin/DeathValley#
Picked up an almost brand new 2010 Prius (only 6000 miles on the odometer) at Hertz today, and headed east towards Yosemite National Park.
421.3 miles at an average speed of 45 mph and consumption of 49.8 mpg.
That's 678 km and 4.72 l/100 km in metric.
Yesterday was rainy, and the forecast for tomorrow is wet too, so when the sun came out today we saw it as an opportunity to go see the Coit Tower.
Jari machined these steel fin moulds for the PIKANTO over the weekend. The fin will be moulded with a clear glecoat, one 200g carbon layer as a surface layer, and one 250g/m2 UHM UD carbon layer. We are going to use either cnc-machined balsa cores, or a 2-component epoxy foam core. The bulb attaches with an M3 threaded rod which will be moulded into the lower end of the fin. At the boat end we'll insert a metal piece with M4 threads so the fin can be attached to the boat with an M4 hex screw.
I'm in San Francisco for the 54th annual meeting of the Biophysical Society.
also on Picasa: http://picasaweb.google.com/anders.e.e.wallin/SanFrancisco#
This is already my fifth BPS meeting, the previous ones were: