Days 9 and 10, Wednesday the 20th and Thursday the 21st of June;
The Summer Solstice and The Great Santa Cruz Mystery

When we planned the tour, one of the things I wanted to do was to test the fuel saver on a car without a Harmony Super Charger. So we hired this Ford Escape with the intention of driving the first tank "as is" and then comparing the consumption with all other tank fillings on the road to Seattle. It didn't quite work out that way!

The coast road along the Pacific is extremely curvaceous. It is often not possible to see more than 20 yards to the next sharp bend. The uncorrected steering and braking made the car so difficult to control together with frequent fishtailing that, for safety's sake, I had to put a Harmony Super Charger on it. Within minutes it was braking in a straight line and going definitely around the bends instead of wobbling. We used the fuel saver as well but I cannot say how much of the reduced consumption was due to it and how much to the Harmony Super Charger. When we decided to extend the car hire all the way to Washington DC, we asked if we could keep the same one. We were told that that car would be illegal on the road as of 1^st July! Nice of them to tell us but the Harmony Super Charger saved the day. See www.harmonyautomotive.com for more details.

Somewhere along the coast, not far from Hearst Castle, we came across one of those trees one usually only sees in cinema films. So we took a couple of pictures. Click on the images for large format.

and so we come to:

The Great Santa Cruz Mystery.

Last year, a number of people in the Santa Cruz immediate area purchased Harmony evolutions. After a couple of months, we received a number of complaints that they were not working! We had them all sent back to us and replaced them with new, tested, fully functional ones. Still the same, in Santa Cruz they, allegedly, don't work.

So why, so far as we know, is Santa Cruz the only place on Earth where Harmony evolutions, apparently, don't do anything? We drove there to find out.

Approaching along highway 1, some 33 miles from the town, we got the first indication with a feeling of considerable pressure upon the head and a nauseous feeling which Angela knows quite well from her years in protesting the dumping of nuclear waste in Gorleben, Germany. Stopping at the first opportunity, I could discern a very low cycle thrumming pressure wave from a semi-dormant volcano about 15 miles out to sea. Angela was also able to confirm the increased radioactivity in the area. This last was later confirmed to us, there being a well known gamma vortex in the Santa Cruz area. The standard Harmony evolution was never intended to cope with either of these.

Working on a supposition that the problem may have something to do with geologic instability, Joachim had given me a number of new prototypes to test. One of these, the one which everywhere else would be used to correct the informational structure of the DNA, works just like a normal Harmony evolution in Santa Cruz. These are going into production this week and all Harmony evolutions in Santa Cruz will be replaced with them. They will also shortly be available for general purchase.

and so, with another World shattering problem safely resolved we drive off into the sunset to our next adventure in the Giant Redwood Forests.

See you there soon.