Thursday, April 9, 2015

Another Road Trip

Today we drove to the Hudson Ward to interview an investigator who wants to be baptized.  This was a special circumstances interview that I was assigned to conduct by President Cusick.  The interview went well, and after checking with President Cusick, the investigator was approved for baptism.

However, that is not the noteworthy part of the day.  The interesting challenge was getting to the Hudson Ward.  That ward is the northernmost ward in the St. Petersburg Stake.  On Google Maps, it said it would take us 90 minutes to drive there.  Since we were driving in the afternoon during a busy traffic time, I thought I should allow an extra 30 minutes for traffic.  That was a major underestimation.  It took us well over two hours to drive through the traffic.  Instead of arriving 30 minutes early as I had planned, we were 10 minutes late.

I am slowing learning that driving through St. Petersburg during rush hours is very slow.  The interstate, I275, cuts across the southeast corner of the city.  The rest of the driving is on surface streets.  Although some are 6 lanes, the lanes are packed.  The obvious solution is to avoid rush hour if possible.

No comments:

Post a Comment