Go(ing) west!

We're finally out of Virginia and heading west!

To recap the past few days:
Virginia sucks
Fredericksburg sucks
Hooters girls work hard to sell calendars
The fort's on base bbq place is to be avoided at all costs:
"We ran out of pulled pork, so this is... Different... Pulled pork then the other guy with you had... It's good. Its florida pulled pork"... " oh ok...."
Were totally stealing a guy for our grad program


Today in particular has been a loooong day. We started at about 5am packing up and checking out. We got to the base around 8am, set up for our gazillionith dry run with the NaviGator, ran it perfect twice, and headed off to find someplace warm to sit in till noonish for the REAL demo at 1pm. Our first demo, without the VIPs we wanted to impress went off without a problem. Then the VIPs came for the second demo and we had a computer failure. Ugh, not good.

So now Im on a plane, slightly delerious (apologies for the tense, POV, etc. constantly changing in this post), and hoping to get to sleep by 4am tonight. We flew from richmond -> charlotte -> phoenix ->Ontario where, hopefully, two vans will be waiting to pick us up.... Ya know, if they make it through the RAGING FIRES in cali.

When we get to cali, we'll take a look at how the highlander guys are going. Everyone else should already be out there (25 of us total).

To wrap up, miss everyone back home, VA sucks, cali should be aweswome, Im turning 21 in vegas, and I haven't looked at a single piece of schoolwork in about a week now.

Pictures explained:
Autonomous Solutions' vehicle badass truck that follows a lead vehicle autonomously.
Our tractor-trailer on loan from tyndall air force base.
6 of us plus luggage crammed in a minivan.
The garden Yetti. That's right, Yetti.

:)