Dispatch # 7 – the final post – from the Jaywalker service expedition to New Orleans Oct. 17 – 24, 2010. This photo shows just one of the many bands set up in the French Quarter on Saturday afternoon. After coffee and beignets at Cafe Du Monde (see below), Jaywalker counselor Art Kleinschmidt showed us [...]

Dispatch # 6 from Jaywalker’s New Orleans Service Expedition 2010. Thanks to our roaming residential manager Buckley Bailey-Gates for this blog report. Today was our last day of work. Our site supervisor commented that our group was one of the hardest working she’d ever seen, that she’d be blessed to have more like us. After [...]

Dispatch # 5 from Jaywalker’s service expedition to New Orleans – thanks once more to Jaywalker residential manager and traveling “blog-ospondent” Buckley Bailey-Gates. No, really Geaux Saints (that’s how they spell it down here). After spending only an hour in the 9th Ward this morning – a mission we fit in specifically to accrue some [...]

Dispatch # 4 from our intrepid blog reporter in New Orleans, Jayawalker residential manager Buckley Bailey-Gates. Today started off with a rainbow (see photo above), which should have given us a hopeful vibe, but instead… Our stalwart crew struggled through a mid-week slump in enthusiasm. Though these happen often during our service trips, we always [...]

Thanks to Mike Goerne, operations director, for this update and the pics from the current four-day Jaywalker Lodge expedition to Moab, UT. The weather in Moab is spectacular so far… The men have been making the most of their many choices for activities here in the Utah desert. The daily options include Rock Climbing, Mountain [...]

Dispatch #3 from Jaywalker’s sober service expedition to New Orleans (Thanks for this update from residential manager Buckley Bailey-Gates.) Using a putty knife as a spatula, Justin decided to grill up a few burgers at the worksite today. Our supervisor took one look at this and called our guys “the most eccentric group I’ve ever [...]