volunteer security

Yesterday was spent volunteering.  Both Bob and I were security for the large lots of new coaches on display.  I was guarding a driveway with a sealed gate for a few hours (I joked that I was doing a great job of security in that I was not letting anyone in.  But I got a book and read.)  Then they moved me to a place that actually had an open gate and people whose badges I had to check.  We worked two shifts, one in the morning and one in the evening.  Then, in the middle, we got trained on how to drive the disabled carts.  We do driving this afternoon and again on Saturday. 

In the meantime, we are sitting watching the coaches come in.  There are thousands.  Yesterday about 1500, today about 1000.  Then tomorrow the rally actually begins.  The coaches that are coming in are, for the most part HUGE.  They are big and expensive.  And they are towing the most amazing stuff - cars, of course, but scooters, motorcycles, pickups holding motorcycles, and stuff that I just cannot recognize.  But the parking staff are doing a great job of getting them parked quickly. 

We are in a disabled lot and there is still almost no one else in the lot with us.  I assume that by the time they get things full that our lot will be full, and cannot understand why no one else is here yet.  Bob and I took a walk to one of the outer lots this morning.  It is huge (has to be to hold thousands) and really far away.  Most of the folks have no water or electricity, but they are only here for four days and most of these rigs can get by for a lot longer than that.  They have trams that go to the outer lots to bring people into the activity center (?).  this is quite a thing to organize.

Last night there was a nice sunset.  Bob claims that I am a sucker for sunsets, and maybe he is right.  but this looked nice enough to take a picture. 

Well, time to log off and go drive the disabled carts.