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Itinerary overview

May 4th: Waterloo → Quebec City, 12 10 hours expected

May 5th: Marathon Quebec City Southport, 11.5Alma, 3 hours

May 6, 7, 8: Competition

May 9th: Southport Alma MarathonMontreal, 11. 5 hours

May 10th: Marathon Montreal → Waterloo, 12 8 hours

Table of Contents

Action items

  • In WARG bay, E5 2003 @ 6:00 AM Wednesday May 3

Todo:

Comp Travellers:

Vehicles:

  • 1 Dodge Caravan, 1 Dodge Ram, 1 Rav4.trailer

  • Drivers:

    • Please pick up vehicles on May 3rd before ESMS closes, head to ESMS, ask for help, and say you need the keys to the Rav4 and Caravan. Give my name if asked who booked.

    • Please setup ELD app.

    • DO NOT SPEED YOU ARE BEING TRACKED (maybe just use Cruise Control)

    • No more than 6 hours driving in 24 hours. (2+2)

    • Rotate drivers every 2 hours (recommended but not mandated) → See footnote 1

      • Try to fill gas tank whenever possible → who knows if the next 4 gas stations might be empty

  • Fuel: We are responsible for delivering the vehicles back with a full tank.

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titleFootnotes (Vehicles):

1: See how their example does not rotate every 2 hours?

Hotels:

Hotels

  • All reservations under Hamza Ali

  • May 3rd Hotel: Résidences Campus Notre-Dame-de-Foy, Quebec City

  • room arrangements????

  • Hotel Date: May 3rd night

  • Hamza Ali for reservation name

Food:

  • Snack run before comp - covered by team funds

  • Water, First Aid, Sunscreen - covered by team funds

  • Meals provided for by your own funds

    • 5030, rue Clement-Lockquell, G3A 1B3

  • room arrangements:

    • Room 1: Dhruv, Ethan

    • Room 2: Conall, Anthony

    • Room 3: Nathan, Aidan

    • Room 4: Hamza, Xierumeng

    • Room 5: Megan, Ayoung

  • May 8th Hotel: Hotel L’express, Longueuil

  • room arrangements:

Food:

  • Allowance of __? for food daily, out of team funds

  • Picking up snacks?

Individual Packing list

  • Water bottle

  • Comp tshirt

  • Sunscreen / Long sleeves / Hats (even if it’s raining?)

  • Power Banks / Chargers

  • Be wary of hotel combs?!?!??!?!?!? && Hotel thin walls?!

  • Toiletries

Equipment + WARG Packing List

Teams please add your requirements here. Pack afternoon May 2nd

Batteries (Safe bag/box?)

  • Battery charger

  • Laptop, charger (firmware)

  • Both controllers

  • Pixhawk + Cables

  • Dragonlink (as backup?)

  • Aircraft → How pack?

  • Spare Analog Video system? → lightbridge 2

  • Monitor idk

    Food

    Allergies

    • Grass & Pollen

    Water

    • what do?

    • Is there potable water at comp?

      • or do we need many big water bottles?

    • remember to drink water

    Food Stops (edit as you see fit)

    • May 4th: lunch in Sudbury (lots of Tim Hortons), dinner in Wawa (also Tim Hortons as well as other food places)

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    • May 5th: Ignace for lunch (Clooch’s Tavern), dinner in Winnipeg (lots of options)

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    Full, Detailed, no chill all gas itinerary

    May 3

    https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Engineering+7+(E7),+University+Avenue+West,+Waterloo,+ON/Service+des+congr%C3%A8s+et+h%C3%A9bergement+Campus+Notre-Dame-de-Foy,+5030+Rue+Cl%C3%A9ment+Lockquell,+Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures,+Quebec+G3A+1B3/@45.0628174,-78.5550533,7z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m18!4m17!1m5!1m1!1s0x882bf403ba0150eb:0xebbfa4342ecc7943!2m2!1d-80.5395239!2d43.4730414!1m5!1m1!1s0x4cb89a9197d82307:0xca2cef159a50d0f!2m2!1d-71.4006407!2d46.7384838!2m3!6e0!7e2!8j1683097200!3e0

    3rd 4thgooglg7soXd937GA2nmwm9Uwaterloo → Zero 100 Motor Inn(21 Peninsula Road, Marathon, Ontario) (807) 229-01000545

    Marathon → Microtel Southport (5100 Crescent Road West, Southport, Manitoba)

    Note: Southport in diff timezone (1 hr behind) 6th 7th 8th 9th

    May 2

    Get Keys

    • Engineering Student Machine Shop,

    • 1st floor of E5 SDC.

    • Go before they close (2100 on weekdays? Just go early.)

    • Teams may have cars booked during the day…

    May

    2nd

    Meet Victoria

    ?!?!? MIA → walk into her office and check sometime

    Graeme

    • Find Graeme after attaching trailer.

    Wednesday May

    3rd

    Waterloo → Quebec City

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    com/maps/

    0500

    Non-Drive team arrives at UW

    • Start packing, see packing list.

    • Anni’s camping out overnight in E7 so will be here too

    0530

    Drivers arrive at UW

    • Please, everything should be ready to be put into the vehicles by now.

    • Last minute vehicle checks?

    dir/Engineering+7+(E7),+University+Avenue+West,+Waterloo,+ON/Service+des+congr%C3%A8s+et+h%C3%A9bergement+Campus+Notre-Dame-de-Foy,+5030+Rue+Cl%C3%A9ment+Lockquell,+Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures,+Quebec+G3A+1B3/@45.0628174,-78.5550533,7z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m18!4m17!1m5!1m1!1s0x882bf403ba0150eb:0xebbfa4342ecc7943!2m2!1d-80.5395239!2d43.4730414!1m5!1m1!1s0x4cb89a9197d82307:0xca2cef159a50d0f!2m2!1d-71.4006407!2d46.7384838!2m3!6e0!7e2!8j1683097200!3e0

    0600

    Team members arrive @ UW

    • Vehicles should be packed - only personal items.

    0630

    Depart UWaterloo

    • Leave early to avoid as much rush hour as we can

    +1h 45

    0830 ~ 0800

    Pass through Barrie, ON

    Esso at 7 Anne St N, Barrie, ON L4N 1B7

    • Take exit 96A

    Barrie OnRoute (probably more expensive but less downtime)

    • along highway, signs for OnRoute

    ? rng stop

    Random Gas Station

    Driverswap

    1030 ~

    Random Gas Station

    Thursday May 5th

    https://goo.gl/maps/pz5vGnUPcwth53hd6

    Driverswap every 2 hours (side of the road is fine?).

    • gas at around 3 hour mark in sudbury.

    • Could be an early lunch as well.

    + 6h

    T + 8h
    ~ 1400

    Pass Sault St Marie

    • Not bad place to consider gas / lunch as well.

    • Would be a late lunch.

    ? rng stop

    Gas

    • Swap drivers at 2 hour mark.

    • look for gas if necessary (maybe wawa)

      • better safe than sorry, stopped time does not count.

    + 4h

    T + 12h
    ~1800

    Arrive at Zero 100 Motor Inn

    • try to get there early to maximize working time before sleeping

    • Remember to top up gas at night (in case)

    • Refreshment break

    1230 ~

    Random Gas Station + Lunch

    Driverswap

    1430 ~

    Random Gas Station

    Driverwap

    1630 ~

    Random Gas Station

    Driverswap

    • Refreshment break

    1730 ~

    Arrive to Hotel

    Thursday May 4th

    Quebec City → Alma

    https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Service+des+congr%C3%A8s+et+h%C3%A9bergement+Campus+Notre-Dame-de-Foy,+5030+Rue+Cl%C3%A9ment+Lockquell,+Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures,+Quebec+G3A+1B3/Alma,+QC/@47.672767,-72.5855963,8.27z/data=!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x4cb89a9197d82307:0xca2cef159a50d0f!2m2!1d-71.4006407!2d46.7384838!1m5!1m1!1s0x4cea76244369d7ff:0x5040cadae4d65b0!2m2!1d-71.6527704!2d48.5504607!3e0

    0600

    Depart Marathon

    • Leave early to arrive at microtel early.

    • Hotel should have breakfast? Not sure how early

    + 3h 15
    T + 3h

    ~ 0900

    Pass Thunder Bay

    • Gas

    • There’s a walmart if snacks//want to buy packed lunch/water

    + 3h 30
    T + 7h

    ~ 1300

    Pass Dryden Ontario

    • Gas ?

    • Lunch?

    +3h 45

    ~ 1700

    Pass through Winnipeg

    • ANYTHING YOU NEED / Dinner?

    T + 12h

    ~ 1800 et

    ~ 1700 local time

    Arrive at Microtel

    • could be later with many stops

    • Note that Waterloo is 1 hour ahead of Winnipeg/Southport.

    Friday May

    5th

    Competition

    Saturday May

    6th

    Competition

    Sunday May

    7th

    Competition

    Monday May

    8th

    Southport → ??

    0600

    Car 1 Depart Southport

    part of my master plan to get everybody sleeping early so they can leave at 4am the next day

  • (Mostly so that we get to Hotel before 8pm so we have mandated 8 hours before driving again).

  • 0800

    Car 2 Depart Southport

    This seems like a reasonable hour to leave?

    Before 1400

    Drop Jenny off at airport

    You get to be in car 2 jenny have fun 😃

    Tuesday May 10th

    ?? → UWaterloo

    0400

    or earlier

    Car 1 departs

    • Leaving early so Anni can get back to pre-arranged move things to Toronto

    • Anni, Daniel, who else?

    0X00

    Car 2 departs

    Feel free to leave whenever you want

    4pm

    car 1 arrives