June 16, 2004

Wilmington, NC

After the long journey from Tennessee to the North Carolina coast, we finally arrived in Wilmington. Exhausted from our travels we had little time or energy to scrub the layer of Bonnaroo sludge off the hybrid.  As we rolled up to our live television spot at 6:30 in the morning, the local Sierra Club chapter chair commented, ¡§I thought you might had have rinsed it off.¡¨ Thank goodness for bathroom sinks and paper towels! A quick rub down helped us zoom through the interview sparkling clean. A proper cleaning was now in order. At the nearest coin-fed carwash we resisted the urge to attack each other with water hoses and foam brushes lest we be unpresentable for the tabling event to come. Later we discovered beachgoers would not have minded our appearance. Special thanks to Mike Pope for setting up our morning media events and to Desi Horton for hosting us. Also thanks to Brendan Bell, the Washington representative from the Global Warming and Energy team in D.C. who drove down to do the media events with us and keep us laughing

-- Steph