On Tuesday April 29, 2008, I attended the Honda Civic Tour with Panic! At the Disco. I had a great opportunity to see the Honda Civic Hybrid customized by Panic at the Disco. Here is a gallery with some of the shots I took both of the car and the show.

Sorry about the poor photo quality, my camera phone is ready to be replaced (as soon as they build and sell the replacement).  Warning Heavy Graphics usage after the jump (not for slow connections).

Yesterday I met a person with seven years of hybrid ownership under her belt; she was driving a '03-'05 Civic Hybrid.  The weirdest part about how we met was where it happened, at the gas station in a Civic Hybrid Navigation with no fuel bars on the gas gauge.  She started with the Insight and moved to the Civic Hybrid.  We caught this self-admitted snowbird on the way back to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida small world!  I gave her my business card with this site and the Florida club on it, looking forward to seeing you on the site traveler.

What are some of the weirdest places you have met a (another) hybrid owner? [Please keep responses rated PG or lower]

Kacey Green
for the Midlands Hybrid Club
"Promoting the spread of clean personal transportation technologies."

On Saturday Willie, Cash, and I stopped for a bite to eat on the way over to earth fare, Brueggar's Bagels taste just like New York bagels and are preservative free.  What we did not know is Earth Fare has a breakfast bar. Laurie at Earth Fare really took care of us on the food front she made sure we had access to breakfast, gave us iced sweet tea, as well as burgers and dogs.  Willie put in some face time with WIS News.  We collected seventy entries for the Honda Civic giveaway at Midlands Honda; we had at least seven test drives and did over 60 presentations of the Honda IMA (Integrated Motor Assist) hybrid system. The t-shirt giveaway was much more successful than we anticipated, next time we will try to have club t-shirts available. We want to thank Earth Fare again for allowing The Midlands Hybrid Club and Midlands Honda to join in the festivities.  I loved how the band added a Hawaiian touch to every cover they performed it was nice. There are big things planned for the coming season I am looking forward to seeing you there!

Kacey Green
for the Midlands Hybrid Club
"Promoting the spread of clean personal transportation technologies."

I have needed to make this post for some time now.  FLhybrid.com needs a local event coordinator, and a volunteer editor.  Midlands Hybrid can use an assistant event coordinator and a volunteer editor as well.  Please send your information via the Contact us page at GRLT.com

When planning some of the recent events for the Midlands Hybrid Club I realized that the physical distance between the Florida club and myself has made regular events difficult for me to orchestrate from South Carolina without hiring someone.  I want the Florida club to have the same opportunities as the South Carolina Club, what I'm looking for is someone energetic and enthusiastic who can handle the stresses of building awareness through events such as gatherings and fundraisers.  I can still do major functions and remote based gatherings with everything as it is. When going over the short-term goals for the Midlands club and after a particularly hard-hitting question from a reporter at The Gainesville Sun, I want to make sure all the clean personal transportation clubs to have the same opportunities available so that national events are not out of reach.

Kacey Green
for the GCustom clean personal transportation clubs
“Promoting the spread of clean personal transportation technology.”