Wow. I just love seeing new cities. I don’t even need to stay there, just walk up to the city and be like, “Wow. Nice to meet you.” What I’m loving about Nashville: I balled my way to Nashville because I was staying with a friend and it hurt too much to say goodbye. I…
Category: USA
New Orleans
What I loved:
We have to do better.
We still have a long way to go. I would like to share some quotes. “Don’t monkey with white supremacy; it is loaded with determination, gun-powder, and dynamite.” Vickbsurg Commercial Herald, May 1889 Today people wonder if white supremacy is even real. Back then people fought with violence to protect it. In 1896 the United…
Des Moines Capitol — Women’s suffrage thoughts
Women’s suffrage has always been near to my heart. I don’t think some of us realize what people went through so that women can vote. Here’s one article. People faced imprisonment and a bunch of horrible things just to be able to do something we take for granted today. And that moves me. It moves…
5-Star Des Moines, Iowa
Des Moines, I would like to apologize. Before I started my road trip, I literally laughed to people about the fact that I would be passing through Des Moines, Iowa. I pictured a bigger city in the middle of not so big cities — sort of a “well, we had to put something on the…
From the Redwood Forest…
The Redwood Forest was magical. Too cliché? But really, if you have the chance I would highly recommend checking it out. It’s on my must-see-list-before-you-die. When me and my friend Treasure first got out of the car and saw what was common for us – a tree – but massively beyond what our minds had…