Month: March 2015

Made it Home

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 Our Story on NPR

If you want to hear the story NPR did on our trip click here to listen – Story on NPR

 

What a day! Left this morning from The Blue Water B&B where Rick, the owner, let us charge up over night (110 volt). Great B&B, highly recommend this place if you are ever in Lewes, DE. Then it was on to the Dogfish Head Brewery in Milton, DE.

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Patrick, Rick, and Lola

Don’t need to say much here, other than thanks to Holly and Dogfish Brewery for allowing us to us charge up while we went on the tour.

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After doing the tour and tasting, we headed up to Dover and decided to charge up at the Hertrich Nissan dealership.

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Patrick with Phil, our new best friend

They gave us a ride to Dover and we finished up our day touring the Biggs Museum. Patrick was able to see some of the art work created by Sanford School students.

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When we were done, we called Hertrich and they came and picked us up. We jumped into our fully charged car and headed home via Route 13. We had a great time touring Delaware, we learned a lot, and it is good to be home.

Trouble

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About 15 min into our tour Patrick noticed that the car was not charging. We finished up our tour of the Archives and Patrick walked back to check on it while I did the tour of Legislative Hall. 



The charger was not working so Patrick found this local Nissan dealership, Hertrich Nissan, that would let him charge up. He drove there and then rejoined me in the tour. 

Made it to Dover 

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Made it to Dover with plenty of power left. Pulled into the UD Paradee center. Got ICED, which means that an internal combustion engine (ICE) was in our charging spot. 

Patrick got that taken care of and we plugged in and headed to The First State Heritage Park to start our tour. 

Good News, Bad News

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Well I have some good news and some bad news. First the good news. WDDE 91.1 FM out of Dover, DE will be at our house to interview us as we leave on our trip. They will follow us to our first charging station and then to Rehoboth Beach.  We are very excited they are interested in the trip. The story will be a follow up to one they did a year ago when the state first announced they were going to install charging stations. Story from February 2014

Now for the bad news. Leg three of our trip was suppose to be up to Lewes, DE and the Cape May – Lewes Ferry, where they installed two 15Kw chargers. I just received a call that the charging stations are not working. This might change our plans a little. We might not be able to make it to the southern most point of Delaware. I was counting on being able to leave Rehoboth Beach and run down to the Delaware, Maryland boarder and back to the Ferry terminal with an empty tank, charging that day as we visited Cape May. I am going to contact the Blue Water House and see if they will let us charge there for the day and have them give us a ride to the Ferry and pick us up that evening.