(TNS) — Josue Arias drives around 71 miles over the winding roads and nauseating ups and downs of San Diego County’s backcountry, from tree-lined neighborhoods to the vast expanse of the Colorado Desert.
Sometimes it’s below freezing. Sometimes it’s above 100. One August day, the air conditioning wasn’t working.
Arias is a bus driver for Julian Union High School District. The district serves not many more than 100 students at its one high school — but it also covers over 900 square miles, and it has just two buses to cover them…