For those of you who don’t know, it’s opposite than the U.S - left side of the road driving and anytime you leave a main road it’s usually through various degrees of sand. I’ve left most of the driving to Jg and Luke b/c, well, why not. But today went out with Bennety and Luke to do environmental interviews. But after the first one Luke decided to head back to enter data and do grass identification leaving the interview process to me and Bennety. And a process is exactly what is should be called. I set out to do six – granted the interviews do take awhile (45-50 minutes each) but it’s the prep time to track down the person who tracks down the person to ask permission of the person to interview that takes so long. Did you catch that? Yeah, exactly. Anyways, that process can take up to an hour assuming you actually find the first person to set off the chain of events. And, of course, along the way you have Bennety subtly signaling that perhaps I might think about driving the car on the left side of the road rather than the right. Just a suggestion. Or, when going through sand that perhaps 4-low might be more appropriate than nothing to go through deep areas (with the engine revving up so loud he has to shout to make the suggestion). But, that’s neither here nor there.

In any case, quite the day but managed to get some interviews, some interesting, way scattered responses to similar questions but hey, that seems to fit quite well with the completely unclassifiable landscape – might as well have the same variation in interview responses….

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