Alabama.
Christmas Eve and a Mardi Gras store in Mobile, a city that says it had Mardi Gras before New Orleans did, plus her very first Short and a powwow of the Alabama Tishatta.
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By late December, the ride reaches the Gulf Coast. A Christmas Eve stream from Mobile is followed four days later by a walk through a Mardi Gras supply store, where a shopkeeper explains the city’s claim to the holiday. By his account, French settlers were celebrating Mardi Gras in Mobile in 1703, decades before the parades reached New Orleans.
Alabama also holds two firsts on the channel: her very first YouTube Short, filmed mid ride while she worked out how to flip the camera to face herself, and a stop at an indoor powwow of the Alabama Tishatta, where a group of kids asked her directly to post the footage.
What she filmed here.
She paid for this whole ride herself, $6,000 before she asked anyone for anything, and she is still out there riding.
Help her document itThis is one state in a ride that is still going. See the full travel catalogue for where else she has been, or the channel itself for everything, sorted and unsorted alike.
Goes straight to Marissa’s own GoFundMe. No set target, so give what it is worth to you. This is a personal fundraiser in her name, separate from We Them Media’s Fractured Atlas sponsorship, so it is not tax-deductible.
8 supporters at $178 a month pay for this work, on the way to $1,000 a month. 61 people have been asked One Question on camera. This season's campaign runs to Thursday 10 December.