Driving and searching...

When looking at the schedule of the year thus far, I have been on ten trips.  The season started with mainly charter groups and a few Death Valley visits.  Now we have gotten into the real season. June was interesting because I was in Yosemite three times.  The Yosemite trips, for the guide/ driver are about the most technical driving there is. The lanes are quite narrow and there remain perhaps only inches of clearance for the bus which needs to be split so the bus can fit within the lane.  Mentally, it is taken in small blocks of task, two hours here, thirty minutes there, and then there is the passenger management.  When dropping 30 plus passengers off at the Yosemite Lodge with instructions on what to do, what not to do, and the right time to return to the pick up point...there is always that one.  The one who gets lost, fails at time management...well of course...he's on vacation...or the non-English speaker who is overwhelmed by the whole experience and is unable to express one's self. No worries, we still love them because at one point we have all been "that guy"

There is hardly a complaint from me because even if I have to calm a bus full of peeps while waiting for That Guy, I get to enjoy the view from my rolling office.