"Detroit went well, as far as a learning experience.  Brayan got the electric car through inspection, but it could not finish a complete run.  The ethanol team had a few successful runs.  We did not get the urban concept through inspection.  The kids finally *realized* that they have to actually *work* *hard* for this competition.  The kids all worked hard while we were there.  Now we just need to get them to work hard *before* they go.  They saw a lot of other students working constantly, obsessively on their cars.  Some of them stayed up way to late working on the cars.  Ricky got sick and was out of action 2 days.

    We had a great visit to the Honda Plant, and I think the kids really got a lot out of that visit and the Henry Ford Museum.  Ricky and I were exhausted yesterday, but we are going to get an update with pictures sent out asap.  Thanks for checking on us.  I really think you would have loved the Eco-marathon.  It has a lot of people like you.  Oh, the team also got to meet Jay Leno, and might be featured in one of his upcoming episodes.

    So all-in-all a good trip.  A lot of lessons learned.  We really can take what we have as a good head start for next year."