The bus is on vacation. Thought we'd share today's sunset with you.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Friday, January 2, 2009
Desert Hot Springs New Year
We camped in the Desert Hot Springs Spa's parking lot for the new years celebration but after soaking in the tubs all day... fell asleep and woke up to fireworks... assumed it was midnight and went back to sleep. woo ho.
We're in the greater LA metro area from now until Jan 20th.
We're in the greater LA metro area from now until Jan 20th.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Slab City & The Salton Sea
We've left Slab City but plan to return the last week of January for the talent show and to hopefully catch some footage of the military bombing the mountain side. We're over nighting in Salton Sea and moving on for some more hot spring action for the new year. Should be in LA on the 2nd.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Setting Up @ Slab City
We finally arrived in Slab City, CA. All the worrys about being cold and getting the satellite set up have been brushed aside. The Broadband card works here, works fast too. I'm hoping to set up a LIVE broadcast ... probably test it out later today and then broadcast a "show" tomorrow.
It turns out Slab City is nestled between a federal prison and a military bombing range. It's a big open desert many miles seperate us from them. The bombings, we've been told, are on hold until after the holidays. So, I think we're going to stop here on the way back east too; to get some war footage. '~)
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
The NOmadjik Winter Tour
Well we're off to warmer climates. Now poised to set up in Tucson for a few days of work and editing.
The concerned look on our faces is wondering if the damn cell phone was going to take the picture or not.
Check out the new road map in the side bar.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Point Au Chene Media Bus
The Bus is providing this free kitchen with internet access so they can continue feeding those in need in the deep Bayou. The people who populate this area have been here for hundreds of years, they are indigenous. They receive NO HELP from the government because the government would like them to move, they can not move without loosing their oil and mineral rights and they can not exploit their oil and mineral rights because the government/corporations don't want red skins to profit.
Also pictured... Felipe's bus and EveryBody's Kitchen.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Traveling kitchen provides home-cooked relief
Nikki Buskey~Staff Writer
Published: Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 4:05 p.m.
HOUMA — Everybody has a right to a home-cooked meal, regardless of their income or situation in life.
Everybody's Kitchen volunteers Anne and Floppy, both of whom use only their first names, prepare dinner Monday inside one of the organization's two buses outside St. Charles Bromeo Catholic Church in Pointe-Aux-Chenes.
That's the premise of Everybody's Kitchen, a group of volunteer chefs who retrofitted an old school bus into a self-sustained, solar-powered kitchen that they use to travel the country feeding the homeless and providing disaster-relief meals.
The organization has temporarily set up shop at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, 1237 La. 665 in Pointe-aux-Chenes. They're preparing breakfast and dinner for residents of Pointe-aux-Chenes and Isle de Jean Charles, as well as shipping meals to Dulac residents.
Anyone can stop by and pick one up, said Everybody's Kitchen volunteer James McGuinness.
The cooks, a "revolving door" of volunteers who also fed people in New Orleans' Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina, hooked up with the New Orleans-based relief group Common Ground Collective to service damaged communities in Terrebonne after hurricanes Gustav and Ike, McGuiness said.
"When you're trying to work on your house, or get your business going, you don't always have time to cook," said McGuinness, 52, of Brooklyn, N.Y.
Everybody's Kitchen has been operating since 1992, McGuinness said, and has done disaster relief in Minneapolis, Mississippi and New Orleans, fed needy people on Los Angeles' Skid Row and traveled to Mexico to feed deported immigrants.
"The focus of this is that everyone has a right to eat, broke or not. We will share with anyone, and anyone who wants to share with us can," said a 41-year-old Detroit volunteer known only as Floppy.
He was manning the buses built-in propane stove Monday, preparing red beans and rice, a south Louisiana staple.
"It's Monday, what else?" he said, adding that everywhere the kitchen travels, they try to take a cue from locals about what to cook, learning their recipes and adding to their repertoire.
Long-haired and long-traveled, the group of traveling, food-distributing gypsies might be a strange sight to some locals.
Their 12 volunteers work out of two school buses — on painted orange and and the other in a bright shade of blue. When the weather is nice, they cook outside under a tarp.
The volunteers camp on the church lawn, and they've been given access to the St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church rectory where they have established an an impromptu business office to keep in contact with businesses who might want to donate cooking items.
"It's beautiful here," McGuinness said of south Terrebonne. "The people are very friendly, and we're happy to be helping out where there's a real need."
The workers will stay and cook as long as they're needed and wanted, he added.
Floppy stressed that the group isn't a charity in the conventional sense, but they do operate using donations from businesses and others.
"We've had people stop by and drop off oysters, shrimp, crabs," McGuinness said. "Anything they drop off, we'll cook up."
The group steamed the crabs, and local residents appreciated the meal, though McGuinness said they later discovered that's not the way the seafood is traditionally prepared in bayou country.
"I guess most people boil them down here," he said. "We talk to the people that come down, try to figure out what they like. We love the food down here anyway -- anything that spices things up."
If you want to get in touch with Everybody's Kitchen to help their effort with a donation, supplies or food, or if you just need to grab a meal, you can find them at the St. Charles Borromeo Church in Pointe-aux-Chenes, or call them at 504-421-1205.
They can also be reached by mail at
Everybody's Kitchen
P.O. Box 115
Montegut, LA 70377.
Published: Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 4:05 p.m.
HOUMA — Everybody has a right to a home-cooked meal, regardless of their income or situation in life.
Everybody's Kitchen volunteers Anne and Floppy, both of whom use only their first names, prepare dinner Monday inside one of the organization's two buses outside St. Charles Bromeo Catholic Church in Pointe-Aux-Chenes.
That's the premise of Everybody's Kitchen, a group of volunteer chefs who retrofitted an old school bus into a self-sustained, solar-powered kitchen that they use to travel the country feeding the homeless and providing disaster-relief meals.
The organization has temporarily set up shop at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, 1237 La. 665 in Pointe-aux-Chenes. They're preparing breakfast and dinner for residents of Pointe-aux-Chenes and Isle de Jean Charles, as well as shipping meals to Dulac residents.
Anyone can stop by and pick one up, said Everybody's Kitchen volunteer James McGuinness.
The cooks, a "revolving door" of volunteers who also fed people in New Orleans' Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina, hooked up with the New Orleans-based relief group Common Ground Collective to service damaged communities in Terrebonne after hurricanes Gustav and Ike, McGuiness said.
"When you're trying to work on your house, or get your business going, you don't always have time to cook," said McGuinness, 52, of Brooklyn, N.Y.
Everybody's Kitchen has been operating since 1992, McGuinness said, and has done disaster relief in Minneapolis, Mississippi and New Orleans, fed needy people on Los Angeles' Skid Row and traveled to Mexico to feed deported immigrants.
"The focus of this is that everyone has a right to eat, broke or not. We will share with anyone, and anyone who wants to share with us can," said a 41-year-old Detroit volunteer known only as Floppy.
He was manning the buses built-in propane stove Monday, preparing red beans and rice, a south Louisiana staple.
"It's Monday, what else?" he said, adding that everywhere the kitchen travels, they try to take a cue from locals about what to cook, learning their recipes and adding to their repertoire.
Long-haired and long-traveled, the group of traveling, food-distributing gypsies might be a strange sight to some locals.
Their 12 volunteers work out of two school buses — on painted orange and and the other in a bright shade of blue. When the weather is nice, they cook outside under a tarp.
The volunteers camp on the church lawn, and they've been given access to the St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church rectory where they have established an an impromptu business office to keep in contact with businesses who might want to donate cooking items.
"It's beautiful here," McGuinness said of south Terrebonne. "The people are very friendly, and we're happy to be helping out where there's a real need."
The workers will stay and cook as long as they're needed and wanted, he added.
Floppy stressed that the group isn't a charity in the conventional sense, but they do operate using donations from businesses and others.
"We've had people stop by and drop off oysters, shrimp, crabs," McGuinness said. "Anything they drop off, we'll cook up."
The group steamed the crabs, and local residents appreciated the meal, though McGuinness said they later discovered that's not the way the seafood is traditionally prepared in bayou country.
"I guess most people boil them down here," he said. "We talk to the people that come down, try to figure out what they like. We love the food down here anyway -- anything that spices things up."
If you want to get in touch with Everybody's Kitchen to help their effort with a donation, supplies or food, or if you just need to grab a meal, you can find them at the St. Charles Borromeo Church in Pointe-aux-Chenes, or call them at 504-421-1205.
They can also be reached by mail at
Everybody's Kitchen
P.O. Box 115
Montegut, LA 70377.
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