After many hours, (days, weeks, months) of car work and other setbacks, we have finally left Oklahoma and arrived in New Orleans. We're currently using the computer setup in St. Mary's of The Angels School, which is the homebase for Common Ground Relief. We pulled up to St. Mary's in the 9th Ward after driving twelve hours straight though Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana. We saw so many beautiful bodies of water, trees, and other natural occurances along the way.
After arriving we were given a tour of the grounds. There is a large cafeteria, a vegan kitchen bus, a bike shop, two floors of rooms for slumber, computer lab, cots and lots and lots of food to go around. We are about to attend new volunteer orientation. Tomorrow we will wake at six thirty and work on gutting houses in 9th ward. For such work we are given a place to sleep, free range at the bike shop, and three wonderful meals a day.
On top of volunteering we are going to be interviewing the cofounders and residents for Road Trip Nation PBS for which we will receive some grant money when we send all of our interviews and information in to them. We will be in New Orleans until the third of March then we will make our way (much more slowly than we did here) to Tennessee.
We hope to see you all soon!
Lovely love,
Marshall
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