Long Day

This morning I headed down the road at 5:45 a.m. to meet my friend Dr. Rhoden for another trip on the Innovative Leadership Experience that he hosts each year. I took the trip last year and was asked to go again this year. My pleasure.

I'm driving the van for the group of 8 students from VFCC; driving happens to be something I'm good at. My day didn't start so well though. I was supposed to meet Dr. Rhoden at Arlington A/G church, instead I went to the Alexandria A/G church. That put me 45 minutes behind schedule and though under normal circumstances we could have made it, today turned out to be construction on Conowingo dam that held us up and made us 15 minutes late arriving for the orientation luncheon. Ultimately it was my fault for being late, and I hated putting Doc in that position. He has forgiven me.

So it was almost two hours in the car on the way down, four hours up to the college, and four hours back. That's a lot of driving. Tomorrow thankfully I have much less and only for myself to get out of the city and back to Pasadena for a Board meeting. Then back to DC for the night so I can rejoin the group first thing Friday a.m.

The next couple days will be whirlwind types of days, but they will be rich with learning and experience. I look forward to sharing with you. When I'm on trips like this I don't always have access to my blog, but I try to twitter more, so you can check facebook or on the right hand side of this page for updates.

--Ben