When Mike and I signed up for this Tiffin rally, we also signed up as volunteers to help the organizers in whatever way they needed assistance – parking, registration, transportation, seminar assistant, to name a few tasks.

Those wishing to volunteer are asked to work up to three hours a day and to have a skill set that includes: the physical ability to walk, bend, sit and stand as necessary during their given shift, strong communication skills, patience, flexibility and kindness!

Predominantly, Mike and I have been assigned as golf-cart drivers, ferrying people around the vast Pima County Fairgrounds just outside Tucson in Arizona where the rally is taking place. Rides to lunches and dinners are very popular for the 30 minutes before and after meal times and especially for this rally as the weather has been unseasonably cold and windy, and folks attending are retired and their physical fitness spans a wide spectrum!

But, it has been great fun and a wonderful way to meet so many different people, all of whom have been absolutely delightful. Needless to say, once my accent is noticed it creates an immediate focus and the subject changes to impersonations of how the English talk, the Royal Family, Benny Hill and the real value of roundabouts!

Me at work today. My fellow volunteers tease me mercilessly about driving the golf cart on the wrong side of the road!