Welcome to the 2011 One America trip! This year we travel from Little Rock, Arkansas to Clarksdale, Mississippi, up to Memphis, Tennessee and then end our adventure in Nashville. We depart on Monday, January 3rd at 8:00 AM sharp for Bradley International Airport and return the evening of Monday, January 10th at 10:30 PM. Traveling with us again is our intrepid faculty leader, Prof. Bob Surbrug. Our peer leader this year is third-time One America traveler, Molly Dower, and joining us for the first time is my husband, Jack, who will have a camera in hand throughout and will lead us in occasional songfests.

Hope you'll follow along!

Rhyshia and Dad

The first student to get picked up from airport.

We all return safe and sound to campus right on time.

Now The New South classroom portion of the trip will begin next week.

As U. S. Congressman John Lewis has said, "We must know our history as a nation and a people. We must study it and visit it's birthplaces- in essence we must live history in order to understand and appreciate it. For better or worse, our past is what brought us here, and it will help lead us to where we need to go."

We Leave New Orleans

I force them into the streets for one last group photo before we get back to the real world.

Students say it was an enriching experience. I'll save the superlatives for them. I know I had a phenomenal time.