View of downtown SF from the ferry
The BART is still on strike, but we still wanted to go to campus (Berkeley) and survey people on their views on spiritual things. Usually, it takes us about 45-50 minutes to get to campus by BART, but with the strike, we took the Muni to the Ferry Building, took a ferry across the Bay to Oakland, then took a bus for another hour to campus.
It took us 2.5 hours to get there...and we were exhausted, but we had some incredible conversations on campus. John and I met a philosophy major from New Jersey, who grew up Catholic realized at the age of 12 that he didn't want to love God just because he was afraid of going to hell because that wouldn't be real love; that would be fear. He started asking a lot of questions and is looking for something out there but not entirely sure what.
Nearly everyone else on our team got into long, significant conversations with people they met on campus. I think God knew we needed some encouragement after our epic journey!
The commute home took even longer - 3 hours!! The ferries were packed, with unprecedented ridership due to the strike. Thankfully, we were going against traffic -- the ferry lines in the direction of traffic wrapped around the ferry building!
Team leaders (Wayne, me and Margaret) napping on the ferry back home
My team was heroic in trooping through a 5.5 hour commute, but I don't think we can do this again tomorrow - too expensive and too draining!
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