Diary of a Site Visit: Day 2

Diary of a Site Visit

Tuesday
7:00 am - Somebody random’s very long and annoying alarm goes off
7:15 am - Jory’s alarm goes off
7:30 am - Jory’s alarm goes off
7:33 am - My alarm goes off/ I get out of bed
7:45 am - Jory’s alarm goes off
8:00 am - Eat breakfast with Eagle 1 and Fire 2 CMs
8:15 am - Everyone meets, ready for work and to meet up with the site supervisor
8:55 am - The site supervisor shows up and we get to work
9:00 am - A voicemail from Megan shows up, telling me that her team is at a different location than the one for which I have directions
9:03 am - Call Megan’s sponsor to get new directions; write it on a series of 4 tiny heart shaped sticky notes
9:05 am - Work with Eagle 1 and Fire 2 to spackle, sand and paint a room
9:53 am - Leave Eagle 1 and Fire 2; hike out onto a trail that we built during Team Leader mini-spike last year
10:00 am - Exit trail; pack up truck
10:10 am - Hit the road
10:17 am - Cynthia calls about grocery shopping
10:20 am - Stop to look at map and decide which way to go
10:23 am - Laura calls about grocery shopping
10:45 am - Cheer at Delaware border
10:49 am - Peek into lunch bag and grab a snack
10:50 am - Decide it would probably been a better idea to keep my lunch bag in the bed of the truck… and out of my reach
11:02 am - Megan calls to confirm my location
11:06 am - Realize that I have probably missed my turn-off; decide to go one more mile before turning around
11:08 am - Turn around
11:28 am - Start to doubt the entire existence of Anchor Inn Road
11:29 am - Find Anchor Inn Road
11:44 am - Find next turn off (Gum Bush Road); pause to take picture of… interestingly edited street sign
11:50 am - Arrive at DNEER site where Eagle 2 is working; sit down to join a catered lunch that is well under way
12:07 pm - Start working (pulling staples out of the floor of this house they are refurbishing for office space)
1:07 pm - Check out my atlas and decide a route home
1:10 pm - Head back out on the road to The Point
2:01 pm - Cheer at Maryland border
2:37 pm - Arrive at the Point within moments of my fellow UDAs… oh yeah we have they special UDA psychic link.

Good thing too, because immediately thereafter we had to start planning for 11 CMs to head down to Florida for disaster deployment… but that is a whole other story.

Peace y'all,
Ali