{"id":16778,"date":"2015-06-15T17:58:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T00:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=16778"},"modified":"2015-06-15T17:58:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T00:58:47","slug":"let-us-do-the-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=16778","title":{"rendered":"Let Us Do the Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_1537\"Now I are a tram tour driver and docent at the Pima Air & Space Museum<\/a>. Over the past two weeks, I:<\/p>\n

1) Rode along on a few tours to see how other driver\/docents handled the job\u00a0and to listen to what they had to say about outdoor aircraft on display.<\/p>\n

2) Wrote up an 11-page set of notes, single spaced, airplane by airplane (those are my notes at left).<\/p>\n

3) Drove the route by myself in a borrowed golf cart, practicing my spiel.<\/p>\n

This morning, dear reader, I did it live with 30 paying visitors and now I am certified, good to go, cleared solo, the newest member of the tram team.<\/p>\n

Guess which one I get to drive?
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\nIf you guessed the one on the left, dream on.\u00a0Air conditioning is for pussies!<\/p>\n

I never counted the outdoor aircraft covered\u00a0on tram tours. I knew we didn’t have to talk about all of them, but the\u00a0driver\/docents I rode with talked about most, so I determined to do the same. I didn’t count the airplanes in my 11 pages of notes, either, but assumed it was about 100. After my certification tour today, the team leader who evaluated\u00a0me said I narrated\u00a0121 airplanes during the\u00a01-hour, 5-minute tour. I had no idea it would be\u00a0that many. It makes it sound like too much, even for the most avid visitor, but as a friend on Facebook pointed out, that’s less than two airplanes per minute, so it’s not as rushed a tour as it sounds.<\/p>\n

So, on to a new page at the air museum. I’m down for two last walking tours, next Wednesday and the Wednesday after. They haven’t given me a regular day for tram tours; they’ll probably have me\u00a0fill in as a substitute until a day opens up.<\/p>\n

That’s the news for now. I’ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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