Day Two: Childress,TX to Barstow, CA--eighteen hours. It looked for awhile that we might make it all the way home in two days. Alas, it's farther from Flagstaff to Barstow than I thought.
Day Three: Barstow, CA to Modesto, CA, arriving 11:00AM. We did not break the speed limit, but I found sometimes that we were bending it a little.
I thought I had made the trip easily, until I got a look at myself in the mirror this morning. Who's the old guy with the baggy eyes?
Travel was uneventful (no accidents, but we saw some doozies), with many conversations about what the adventure meant and how the next one (and there WILL be a next one) can be made even better.
Team Red was much more efficient than other work groups because of the quality of our team leaders (think "sergeants"), and the existing relationships among the team members. If we go again, we will need to provide enough sergeants to handle our own teams as well as the pick-up teams that are available from other places. (If you were there, think of Jesse Kenyon--Navy SEAL--as a team leader of miscellaneous strangers. He would have them working together without clashes in about ten minutes.) Strangers need time to form relationships, and a venue to do so. Group "games" look like one good way to foster this kind of interaction.
Jack
