{"id":2435,"date":"2016-09-12T09:16:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T16:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2016-09-12T09:16:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T16:16:07","slug":"the-long-way-round-day-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/roadtrip\/the-long-way-round-day-01\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long Way Round – Day 01"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a hat-tip to the\u00a02004 TV mini-series<\/a>\u00a0from Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman. This is the first in a series of posts written about our\u00a02016 EV Roadtrip\u00a0written in the same manner as our\u00a02015 trip. \u00a0Here, There, and EVerywhere Trip – Day 01<\/a>, i.e. summaries written for each day of the trip, published each day, this time two months from the day of the trip. \u00a0It may seem funny to some to have a summer trip published at the start of the Fall, think of it as some daily entertainment for those that are back in their offices thinking about their past summer trips that could have been or thinking about their next trip.<\/em><\/p>\n

After taking 23 days to travel from Southern California to Maine last year, we’ve been on several “long” roadtrips. \u00a0Nothing close to the 8000+ miles of that trip,\u00a0until this past summer when we took off for\u00a0this trip.<\/p>\n

So, why the long way round? Well… We got four referrals on the Fourth Tesla Referral Program (May 30, 2016 to July 15, 2016) and we expected to get an invite to the Gigafactory Party, so we thought to start our trip and\u00a0go to Reno (a nearly 500 mile direct drive from home) via the Pacific Northwest (about a 1600 mile detour) with the intermediate goal of attending the EV Roadmap 9\u00a0Conference<\/a> in Portland, visiting family who were spending time in Seattle, WA and family in Vancouver, BC before turning back for the party.<\/p>\n

At the end of the day, I have to thank those that were convinced to pick up a Tesla Model S or Model X and decided to save some money by using our referral code. So, if you’re as inclined as those that took us up on the offer, and in the market for a Tesla Model S or Model X, you can save $1,000 USD\/$1,200 CAD\/\u00a3750 GBP (and whatever the equivalent is in your market) if you use our referral code<\/a> –\u00a0http:\/\/ts.la\/dennis5317.<\/a><\/p>\n

Without further delay, put yourself back a few months, and join us on our trip.<\/p>\n

Day 1 – North to Portland, OR and stop somewhere in the middle.<\/span> July 18, 2016<\/b><\/p>\n

Last year, before we went on our cross-country road trip, we did a lot of pre-trip planning.<\/a><\/p>\n

We did most of the same things, but since we were planning on a trip to Canada, we added taking our passport with us…. as well as a few other things.<\/p>\n

One thing that we did not have readily available on last year’s trip was cleaning supplies. So, rather than purchase these on the road, should the opportunity to clean the car were to present itself,\u00a0we brought our usual cleaning supplies.<\/p>\n

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