Trip update: Family Reunions and gumbo

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January 19, 2009

We’re getting close! After we left Tennessee last night after driving though Oklahoma, Santa Rosa NM and Arizona. Here’s whats been going down-We got a taste of southern comfort when After 7 member Keith Floyd, Ellen Fields and Vincent broke out the warm gumbo courtesy of Troy Stovall of Stovall Catering.

Theo Rosenthal

We talked a to Theo Rosenthal a 16yr old junior in high school from Berkeley. He’s on board to video document the trip for his high school saying he wanted “to capture the emotions of the people on the bus as they experienced this historic event. Like so many young people, Theo stated he wasn’t interested in politics until Obama came along and feels like the President-Elect really captured the attention of the younger generation.

We had a little family reunion in Tenn. Kyrha Dahan, one of our riders, coordinated with her brother James from Nashville, TN to have Rev. Fuzz give us a prayer circle on Rosa Parks Blvd when we pulled into the city. When the bus stopped Kyrha and her sister Regina Davis were met by their mom, Lois Thomas, brother Rodney and wife Deborah Davis. James Pye, another rider, was met by his brother Andrew and wife Dorothy.