Day One

It was too cold out for us to take off our sweaters and show off our pretty Baja team shirts :(

Driving is so tiring! I just sat in the back seat and watched the scenery, but wow, was it pretty. Well, until the sun went down. Then it just looked like this for 6 hours:

I tried to get a picture of the moon. It was just a sliver. The first star was out, too.

We left late because the race-car engineering team was late driving back to the university from Michigan. They did really well, I heard 16th overall! They went to a race track and raced their car. They even made a new team record.
We left London at about 4pm, and drove through Michigan, Indiana, Illinois (Chicago is so confusing! Just like Toronto. Thankfully we were passing through at 11pm local time (midnight back home in London!), and it was pretty empty.), and made it into Wisconsin. We were originally aiming for a small town called Lake Delton, but because we left late, we only managed to get to Madison. We were only an hour behind schedule, which we will make up tomorrow.
Partway through our trip, our truck was bouncing - a lot more than it would on normal Interstate roads! The guys got out to check on the baja vehicle, since we didn't have a flat. They were worried it was coming loose.

I thought we should tuck her in. It was really cold. They didn't like the idea though.

They're reasoning was that the massive shocks - that keep the person safe and not bouncing all over the place (your car has them, too!) - were causing the baja buggy to bounce up and down from little bumps we hit on the road. This is called oscillation. Like when a spring or a slinky bounces up and down. The bump causes the buggy to bounce, which bouces the truck, which bounces the buggy again! It was really bouncy :(

But I'm off to bed, we have an early morning and a lot of miles to drive tomorrow. :)