It's Getting Real Now

Training is coming to a fast close.  Sun 3 (my team) takes off for San Antonio on Saturday morning.  We were originally planning on a two day trip but in accordance with the AmeriCorps motto, the only constant in change, we are now taking a three day trip.

AmeriCorps regulations state that we are not allowed to travel over 500 miles in a day, and while the trip is slightly less than 1,000 miles total, there was no place to stay at the midpoint of the trip.  Oh well.  Our first day we'll get close to 8 hours of drive time to get to Amarillo as our stopping point.  The second day will be a bit shorter as our target for that day is San Angelo.

That puts us at arriving at our final destination at the Land Heritage Institute early in the afternoon on Monday.  Starting work on Tuesday.

Today was supply check out and our trucks are now partially loaded.  We'll be sleeping on cots for the month, so we got those checked out along with our cooking supplies and some trail building tools.

I'm excited to get started but also sad at the same time to be leaving the friends I've made during CTI.  Tomorrow is induction and after that we're all planning on heading into Denver for a farewell for now evening.