[plug] We're on our way to do the 2003 World Solar Challenge

[Onno Benschop]

Hi folks,

After months of speculation, weeks of anticipation and days of packing,
we're hours away from leaving - well it's nearly 8pm on Friday and we
leave at 6am on Sunday - but you get the idea...

As some of you know, the 2003 World Solar Challenge runs from Darwin to
Adelaide from October 19th to 28th. The West Australian team, Sungroper,
has asked us to do their logistical support - which might have something
to do with the fact that the team has a high percentage of geeks who
just happened to know about our satellite dish and associated Internet
connectivity.

We said "you bet!"

Some also may know that Yahoo is running a competition to find special
Internet cafes to celebrate ten years of Internet cafes around the
world. In their categories, they have one that runs under the heading:
Most Remote or Unusual location. With us travelling down the Stuart
Highway with a mobile satellite dish - we figure we have it in the
bag... Every night we'll unpack the dish and update our web-sites and
keep everyone - including yourself - informed about our progress.

We'll even leave you with some web-places to visit and read up on our
travels...

We're just about finished packing up and ready to leave Crossing Falls
(near Kununurra in the far north east of WA - so far north east that
it's 20 km to the NT border!)

Tomorrow the dish - and thus Internet gets packed away, so this is one
final message before we hit the tarmac. We'll go past Victoria Crossing,
Katherine, and many other places on our way to Darwin, where we'll
arrive on the 15th or so. Get ready for the race, big shop, last minute
preparations, the race starts on Sunday October 19th.

There have been reports of news coverage on Channel 10, and I suspect
there'll be others - who knows you might even see us with our little van
and saucer - we'll be with the yellow coloured shark car towards the end
of the pack...

So, places to read up on us:

	<http://www.sungroper.asn.au/>
	<http://www.wsc.org.au/>

If everything goes to plan, we'll even have some time to put some daily
photos up on the ITmaze site at:

	<http://www.itmaze.com.au/cafe/>

So, hang on to your hats, we're on our way!


We'll read our emails, so keep them coming - while we're offline they'll
get stored and you'll receive a message to that effect.

Cheers,

Onno Benschop and Fran Miller

Connected via Optus B3 at S15:51'18" - E128:45'05" (Crossing Falls, Kununurra, WA)
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