On the open (snowy) road

I'm sitting in the passenger's seat next to my buddy Luke doin some blogging as we drive to the first waypoint in the trip, Littleton colorado. We are planning on spending the night at luke's aunts house. Were planning on getting an early start tomorrow, probably around 5 am. From there we will head south to Houston where we will stay with my half brother Derrick and his family. We will probably end up sleeping in our car next to the road before we get there. I havn't seen my two nieces for a few years so I'm definetally looking forward to it. And from what I've heard they're excited to see their uncle.
It's snowing! Just some typical may weather in CO... We just passed through the Eisenhower tunnel going towards Denver. All the camera gear is tucked away in the back of the van. We've got tunes, a radar detector, and GPS. I would say that were set. Now all we have to do is do the remaining 1650 miles of driving!
Luke's blog will be up and running soon at neworleansthrowdown.blogspot.com. Check it out!

Pre-Trip, First Post

My buddy Luke Newbury and I are heading down to Louisiana for our senior project at the Colorado Rocky Mountain School. We have work set up with Habitat for Humanity and we are planning on filming a documentary on the youth of Louisiana. In the past years Louisiana has been hit by two of the worst environmental disasters of our time. Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the recent oil rig explosion on April 20th which threatens to be the worst environmental disaster of the century. We hope to report on what it's like to be a kid growing up in this area that has suffered so much. We hope to give them a voice so that they can tell their story to people who might not otherwise hear about it. We depart this coming Tuesday and all that stands in the way of our adventure and us is an AP environment studies class and 1,750 miles of driving! Stay tuned for upcoming blog posts throughout our trip.