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"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose" Kris Kristofferson

Well. Blogging from this point out might be a little difficult because I do not know how often I will have internet but we will work with what we have. Also I broke my camera so we will not have pictures for awhile.

The Drive from Sacramento to Salt Lake City was like driving being stuck in a deja vu movie reel. At first it was exciting because it really looked like the wild west, I know that sounds silly but really looked like the old westerns. The ground extended until the horizon, the soil red and cracked and tumble weeds tugging to free themselves from the dilapidated barbed wire fences. But after 10 hours of this exact same landscape it all looked pretty bland. I drew a picture of my surroundings in my journal just as we drove into Nevada and 8 hours later I looked at my picture and the landscaping looked exactly the same still.

We would drive through a town and then we wouldn't even see the slightest hint of civilization for about 3 or four hours. The town we did drive through were made up of trailer homes, convenience stores and maybe 1 warehouse-like church. I can't imagine living like that because It would be at least an hour or 2 drive to do any shopping or anything. Even the big cities had only couple thousand people.

I am at the Utah Food bank now. I have been working for 2 days now. The work is hard. We are working in a warehouse. We do a lot of different jobs. While we are at the warehouse we help unload big truckloads of food donations, check them in, sort them and put them away. We are dealing with tens of thousands of pounds of food personally each day. We also are driving Uhaul trucks all over the city to pick up food drive donations. The people here are amazing. Often we will go to a chain store like a jiffylube to pick up a box of food and we will find a huge maybe (5x5x5) box just bursting with canned goods and when we ask the store workers, they will say that they only just put the box a day and a half ago or something. Its crazy.

People also donate weird things. We find unmarked ziplock baggies of mystery powder, cat and dog food, half eaten boxes of gummies and boxes of things boxed way back in 1994. Our work days are Tuesday through Saturday 12- 9pm. Next week will be a crazy busy week because it is Thanksgiving. There is suppose to be a snow storm this weekend big temperature change from Sacramento.

OK well sorry the last part of this blog was confusing I am rushing because I got to get to work

Good Luck. God Bless. Love ya'll!