We miss Gus

5: The number of hours we spent on the food drive today.

Today Kaitlyn and I realized how much we rely on Gus the Bus.

Due to a series of unfortunate circumstances, Gus the Bus was unavailable for food drive pick-ups today like we thought he would be. So we had to get out our ingenuity hats and work something out. We couldn't just forget about 11 food drive sites we had to retrieve barrels and boxes of food from!

So today Kaitlyn borrowed her fiance's Ford Explorer, I borrowed my mom's Hyundai Santa Fe, Martha volunteered to drive the pick-up truck (Kaitlyn and I can't drive a stick shift), and we got creative.

It was a lot easier than we thought it would be! We didn't even need the Santa Fe; the Ford could hold a couple of barrels and a ton of boxes at the same time. We did have to make a few more trips to Shared Harvest than we would have had to with Gus, but all in all it went rather smoothly. We lucked out that we didn't have to go anywhere that had overflow food, or more than a few barrels. Check out Kaitlyn's filled-up car below:



Well, they have told us from the very beginning that VISTA's had to be flexible! I can't wait to tell these stories in some job interviews eight months from now.