![]() I prefer 99 over I-5, but I’ve lately been using a different route that totally bypasses Bakersfield, which is always a traffic nightmare and adds no aesthetic value. I left on Wednesday and took the efficient way: 280 and 85 to 101, and 152 to I-5 (yawn). So I had a few days to do laundry, get a few needed items, and pack for DV. But I did gain something marketable, which not everyone does from a church camp: I was asked to get a state food handler certificate to prepare to work there, so now I can go and apply to Mickey’s or KFC and have my card all ready to show! We were dying of foot exhaustion! When I got home, I found the elevator out of order, and my feet and calves were so sore for a couple days that I could barely walk up and down to the third floor where I live (I’m glad it was fixed before I had to load my car for weeks of being away from home). I’ve never worked in a restaurant or institutional food setting, and I learned that kitchen workers’ hardest-working parts are their feet. ![]() Most adult camp leaders did more than one thing I worked in the kitchen and led devotionals. The trip on the rural road can be slow if you get behind logging trucks, which I did a few times on the way home, but they were courteous about pulling over to let cars pass. Or you can take that road for just 9 miles, but then you’re on Hwy 1 almost all the way from or to San Francisco which is no picnic either. The mileage looks like 2 hours, but the last 35 miles or so from 101 is a narrow, twisty county road. It was in a totally rural spot in Sonoma County, 2½ hours north of San Francisco. I didn’t stay the whole time I went home on Friday. But the park lets me be flexible with the times I can be there, which I appreciate. I already knew then that I would have the summer church camp this month, something new this year. Can’t prove it, but I suspect they try to give returning volunteers better housing. They asked me back in February if I wanted to come, because that’s when they start posting on to invite new applicants, so they want to see if they can bring back familiar bodies and start making housing assignments. It’s that time of the year again, and I’m on the way to Death Valley to work as a volunteer.
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