Day 14
Whenever I have a new stop on my route, I always scout it out the day before.
Today I had 3 new stops. On Saturday,Max and I went out on an expedition to explore the landscape and get an idea of what challenges I may be facing.
When it comes to challenges, these 3 new stops all had some. The first was a stop were I would be onboarding a wheelchair.This is both time consuming as well as physically taxing. In addition to this , just getting to this stop has me crossing many lanes of heavy traffic at least twice and maneuvering the bus down a very narrow 2 way street with cars parked on one side. 
The next stop was at a private residence. No big deal except that their driveway has a narrow entrance which is flanked by 2 knee high brick pillars with lamps on top of them. I can guarantee you that if I have to pull down that drive, I will end up taking at least one of those puppies out!
When I went to check out the last of these new stops, I flat out could not find the address. There were no less than 3 streets with the same name....one was an east and one was a west and the third had no surname.
It took a while but eventually I figured out exactly where I was supposed to be.
I gues all of this combined with an appointment I have later in the day, left me feeling anxious.
I did not sleep well and woke up with an uncomfortable level of anxiety.
I donned a nice outfit and slapped on what I thought was an upbeat attitude and off I went.
Things went okay.....like maybe a 5 on a scale of 1-10.
When I got to my next to the last stop, my 89 year old passenger gazed up from her wlker and asked"why do you have such a mad face on today?".
So much for what I thought was an upbeat attitude. If I was in fact trying to be upbeat, I suppose I should have alerted my face to that fact!
The run is behind me. 
I am much more comfortable with what needs to happen and how I can approach this in the future.
My anxiety has diminished,not completely ,but certainly lessened.
And I am trying my best to remind my face that everything is just fine!