The Road to New Orleans

[newman]

Tomorrow evening learnedax, pax_industria, and I are off on the road to New Orleans (since I'm clearly Bing, I leave it as an excercise for the reader which one is Bob Hope and which is Dorothy Lamour).

By "New Orleans" I really mean "Waveland, MS by way of Atlanta, GA", where by "Atlanta" I mean "Norcross". It goes a little like this...

We leave Boston, hit Norcross GA (it's a suburb of Georgia) and pick up a trailer. Go to The Restaurant Depot in Norcross, load it up with food, a 60 quart pot, and a bunch of slotted spoons. Also buy a palette of plain photocopier paper if we can find one/fit it. Drive to the New Waveland Cafe in Waveland, MS. Unload the stuff, spend a couple of days in a volunteer kitchen or whatever else needs to be done. Maybe drive back through NOLA to see marrus on the way back to Norcross to return the trailer.

The more we bring, the less of a drain we are on existing efforts. I was thinking of buying a tent the three of us could sleep in and just leaving it there for someone else. Possibly the same with any blankets, sleeping bags etc. I bring down.

I'm financing this little roadtrip out of my pocket. I expect I'll spend between $5,000 and $10,000 dollars depending on food, fuel, and costs of supplies (and whether we do one Norcross to Waveland run or two). I'm neither too proud nor too rich to accept donations. If you want to make a non-tax deductible contribution that I guarantee will go straight to help the people down there, drop me a line or send me some money via PayPal by sending money to yevsha @ comcast . net

I, and the people of Louisiana and Missisippi, appreciate it.

Comments

[mermaidlady]

I think pax_industria would look darling in a sarong.

[new-man.livejournal.com]

I'm sure learnedax is relieved to hear that, since he always has to play the girl.

BTW, to save on time and clutter I was thinking of grabbing the two sleeping bags we have and bringing them down with me, leaving them there, and replacing them in the spring. Do you mind? The same with a couple of our spare blankets.

[mermaidlady]

That's fine. They're pretty old sleeping bags. We can get new fluffy ones, I'm sure.

There's a couple of army blankets kicking around (maybe in the basement?). We're not using them for anything else.

[new-man.livejournal.com]

There's a couple of army blankets kicking around (maybe in the basement?). We're not using them for anything else.

Yeah, I'll set Niki to finding them.

[lakshmi-amman.livejournal.com]

If paxindustria is wearing a sarong, I'm sure it'll still look goth/punkariffic. Sort a "yeah, I'm wearing a fucking sarong? What of it?" sort of Eddie Izzard like ensemble. But then, I'm picturing him wearing it with a little mesh top and a leather jacket...

Remind me that I'd like to give you money tomorrow. Is a check OK?