July 19, 2004

Sacramento, CA

After spending all day Sunday traveling from Oregon to California, we were ready to get the Evolution back on its feet and ready to roll. We teamed up in Sacramento with a couple other hybrid drivers who added their Honda Insight and Toyota Prius to the gas-saving circus that is the Hybrid Evolution Tour. Even though the sun was beating down, we had a great crowd who stopped to sign postcards and check out the hybrids on their lunch break.

Even though the Governator was somewhere in the building, we couldn’t track him down. We were hoping that he would wow the crowds by benchpressing one of the hybrids, but no such luck.

After the event, we had to book it back to San Francisco to meet up with a reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle. You can check out the story he wrote about our conversation. We closed out our day with some great Mexican food in Berkeley and a quick stop at a pub called the Starry Plough.

-- Brendan