Thank YOU!

Jane's Blog

As the Team packs up this morning and flies and drives off in their various directions, our journey through the outback and our participation in the World Solar Challenge would not be complete without a few worthy 'thank you's'

THANK YOU to all our sponsors (see their links on the right hand side) for their belief in our Team. We mentioned you at all and every opportunity and hope you will stick with us for Team Ethanol 2009. We will be in touch with you when we return to Mackay, Queensland for individual feedback.

A special thanks to United Nations of Beer (www.theUNOB.com) for their fantastic stubby holders which saw us through the trip. Not only were we the only team in the WSC with team stubby holders, but we discovered they had other uses as well. Both in Darwin and in Adelaide when we had to get emissions testing done on our Saab car, the cost was 4 stubby holders. We started bartering and using the stubby holders as currency and a negotiation tool and it was so great to see other teams using their UNOB Team Ethanol stubby holders at events.

With great pride, the Team would like to thank McAlear Marketing for their amazing work. Adele McAlear ensured the smooth flow of our website, blog, photos and ensured we were kept up to date with important emails and messages. During our journey through the outback, Adele was usually the only 'outside' contact for the team. With her help, we were able to ensure our friends and family we were doing fine, which was a big relief when we were in the remotest of areas. Cheers to you Adele, may you enjoy your shot glasses obtained for you en route, with our deepest thanks.

Thanks (deeply) to our friends, family and supporters who clicked onto our Team Ethanol website regularly, read our blogs and viewed our photos. I spent many many hours compressing photos in the most bizarre locations to ensure our web was as current as possible.

We had a lot of pride in our website, blog and photos and hope you enjoyed them. There are still about 1,000 photos you haven't seen. In the next few weeks, the Team will be putting together a slide show of photos and uploaded onto the Team Ethanol website for your viewing, so please continue to check back with us.

A final note, should any one of our followers want to become an official sponsor for Team Ethanol 2009, please contact us. We're going to start early for sponsorship so we can show up like the University of Michigan Team back up trailer, resembling a rock star roadie vehicle. They sold solar cells for $50 each and every sponsor was written on the trailer. As our ethanol vehicle doesn't have solar cells, perhaps we should raise funds by 'cups of ethanol'?!! Sounds good to us.

Once again. Thanks very very much to you all!

With much appreciation

Team Ethanol 2007