Report from trip #1 to Santa Barbara
What a trip that was.We finally started packing the car to go on Saturday around 8:30pm at B's house. At one point, he had been in the house for a bit, and when he came out, we noticed that all of the doors to the car were open. He yelled, there's a cat in there! As we approached the car, that cat and another came running out. Oops. I was nervous that they would spray our stuff. We left town at around 9:30, stopped at a Wal-Mart (!) in San Leandro or whatever, and then finally kept going.
Just about everything that could have gone wrong on the trip did. At a rest stop somewhere before SLO, I got out to pee and B was stretching his legs or something. He looked back at the car and thought he saw something jump out of the car and run away-- something that looked like his "scaredy cat." We laughed about this for days. When we got to Santa Barbara, we tried to find our way around town, waiting for the hostel where N and C were staying to open. After a bit, B noticed that a car was following us. We pulled over, and the car did, too. We pulled a few parking spaces ahead, and the other car pulled out and stopped in the street when it was unable to find a parking space. We laughed and looked at a map. A moment later, a cop came up and asked us what we were doing-- he said that he had had a report that we were driving erratically. Great. This was basically our get out of town warning. We found a hotel room with 2 beds, and I took a nap for an hour or two, then got ready to go to work.
OVer the first few days, I was kicked out of at least two store parking lots for working without the owner or manager's permission. Great!
It turns out that N and C party all the time when they aren't working, they smoke, and they use yucky personal products. Wonderful.
Combined, they also make more money per day than I do. No fair!
So things haven't gone great down there- B ran out of money, the kids ran out of money, and I am on the verge of running out of money (i had to ask Z to lend me some money yesterday, and I worked a bit today). We drove back to the Bay Area on Monday, and I got home around 5:30pm.
We are supposed to go back in the morning. With some money, cuz B's superiors paid him for some of the work we have done.
I am getting a cold, but I'd better be able to work the rest of the week! It's hard to come home to my hunnybunch and then have to leave again. I gained around 5 pounds on this trip and got basically no exercise at all. Sigh!
posted by mahtin @ 11:10 PM
