Get off your butt.

This is the first in many a blog to come. Please try to control your excitement.

It is January 1st, 2007 today. A new year. I’m supposed to have resolutions. Instead I have resolution: I’m going to take off from my home in Sacramento in February and 8 weeks later I’m going to arrive in New Orleans. Along the way I resolve to make a difference in the lives of New Orleans residents.

(Maybe it would have been easier to just resolve to go to the gym more often.)

But no, I’ve never been one to take the easy route. So in less than two months I will head off in an effort to raise money and awareness and excitement and compassion for the New Orleans area. I’m gonna need a lot of help, so hopefully some of you reading this will resolve to help me with my trip across the grand ol’ USA. (Believe me, it will be a lot more fun than going to the gym.)

I am getting corporate and private donors to sponsor every mile we walk on our way to New Orleans. WE walk. As in YOU and ME. If I can convince enough people to walk with me as I’m moving through their town then we can raise a lot of money for the rebuilding of New Orleans. If not, well then I’m just a girl who spent 8 weeks walking by herself. But then again, I’m sure it will help me lose the holiday weight I’ve put on, so it will still be time well-spent.

At the end of my adventure across the country we will walk into New Orleans. WE. As in you and me and everyone we know. We will walk into New Orleans and we’ll stay there for a week and volunteer with Habitat for Humanity. We are quite productive, you and I, what with all the walking AND the building. We sure do know how to make a good resolution.

This is the first post. There will be many more. Hopefully you will be in some of them with me...

Go to www.dreaminmotion.net to get more info on this trip and how to get off your butt and join us. As we dream, in motion.