Trek Kelly's "The Good In America" Project

Greg's cousin, Trek, spent one evening in Jackson, Mississippi this week. This is the first time I've met one of Greg's cousins.  Trek is spending the year driving a 1969 van across 50 states in 50 weeks to explore, share, discover and celebrate What is Good in America. It's an adventurous, inspiring, and ambitious project.   During this trip, he publishes an online weekly newsletter, "The Sunday Evening Post," posts short videos  and interviews on You Tube, plants apple seeds along his journey, and organizes and participates in "Saturday Help Mobs"  which volunteer at local foodbanks, schools, shelters, etc.  While in Long Beach, MS, he organized a team of folks to pick up litter and trash along hwy 90 and the beach.
You can check it all out by visiting his Good in America  webpage and his project's  Facebook page.

Tuesday evening, we all gathered at Barry and Barbara's for a delicious meal that Barbara put together.  We told Trek and Jenny about some of the people, places, and  things that made Mississippi special - delicious cuisine (fried catfish, hush puppies, fried chicken, hot tamales) literary treasures (Tennessee Williams, Richard Wright, Eudora Welty, Willie Morris, Margaret Walker Alexander, William Faulkner), historic homes (Rowan Oak, Jefferson Davis House), musicians ( Elvis, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson), Civil Rights sites, Dixie National Rodeo, Highway 61 Blues Highway, delta landscapes, cypress swamps, etc....

It was nice to meet more of Greg's family and to see these cousins together after so many years.

Greg, Trek and Simms at Barry and Barbara's house.
Simms loved playing with Trek!
 (Simms looks scared in photo above b/c we were like the paparazzi with our cameras)

A picture of the van that Trek's cruising around in (from his webpage)
I couldn't get a photo of it parked in Barry and Barbara's carport because it was night time...
Safe travels, Trek!