Standing as one of the most memorable and defining experiences of my life, the adventures of our green bus brought us back to Tahoe, right where we had started.  From Hannibal, Missouri we continued to make a giant loop around the country, circling down South from Chicago through Ashville, North Carolina, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and all the way down across the northern part of Florida and through New Orleans, Austin, and Carlsbad for some cave exploration in New Mexico.  In addition to meeting countless incredible people along the way and receiving numerous notes on our bus with excitement of what we were doing, some notable experiences included: attending Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago, Outside Lands in San Francisco, and Burning Man in Nevada, cleaning up an oil spill caused by burning a hole in our 50-gallon collection drum, being gifted by a stranger in Charleston a brand new Gasboy Model 60 pump when ours died, and someone donating a full tank of biodiesel to help us finish the last leg of our trip north from Los Angeles, when our filters were giving out.

All in all, we estimated to have traveled roughly 12,000 miles and recycled nearly 1,300 gallons of waste vegetable oil over the course of our summer.  The knowledge gained during this trip, through pure experience, is indescribable.  I walked away with a new perspective on people, on myself, and most importantly, on the entire controversy of biofuel.  I realized that making a “green footprint” was much more complex than it seemed,