{"id":2478,"date":"2016-09-15T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/?p=2478"},"modified":"2016-09-15T10:00:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T17:00:57","slug":"the-long-way-round-day-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/roadtrip\/the-long-way-round-day-04\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long Way Round – Day 04"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a hat-tip to the\u00a02004 TV mini-series<\/a>\u00a0from Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman. This is the fourth\u00a0day\u00a0in 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\u00a0<\/em>two months\u00a0from 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

Missed the previous day’s post, click here to read Day 3\u00a0of this trip<\/a>. \u00a0You’re just joining us on this trip? \u00a0Click here for Day 1<\/a> and start from the beginning!<\/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

So, what do we have in store today? We’re still in Portland attending the second day of\u00a0EV Roadmap 9<\/a>\u00a0conference at Portland’s World Trade Center. \u00a0So, we have the intermediate goal to complete.<\/p>\n

Day 4\u00a0– EV Roadmap 9<\/b><\/span>, Portland OR.<\/span>\u00a0 July 21, 2016<\/b><\/p>\n

Though we have In and Out privileges for our car at the hotel for the conference, I opted to use other means to get from our hotel to the EV Roadmap 2016<\/a> conference. I still had a few Lyft credits left, but felt it wasteful to use this because all the cars that came out to help us in Portland have all been ICE. As cool as it was to have someone else drive us around and as cheap as it was because of the credits from T-Mobile, I figured to do something different.<\/p>\n

<\/b>So, for day two of the conference (or day three, depending on how you look at the agenda, considering the previous day was “by invitation only”, I’m counting that as zero.) I decided to forego the high cost of downtown Portland parking AND gasoline. I decided to take the Trimet Trolley system. This method of transport was actually $1 more for me than Lyft because of the credits and the $2.00 tip versus $2.50 each way pass, but I thought why not.<\/p>\n

The Trimet station was just across the street from my hotel and a few blocks away from the conference.<\/p>\n

The first tram to stop was going the other way, so I took a photo and waited for the one toward City Center.<\/p>\n

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