Big Easy Go is a student-managed effort to complete a cross-country "parade" celebrating the rebirth of New Orleans. The convoy will be led by a New Orleans-themed golf cart and, if successful, will break the world record for longest golf cart drive.
 
MISSION
Take a souped-up golf cart, a rebuilt 1993 Lincoln Town Car limousine, a few dozen New Orleans-lovers and put them on the road from Los Angeles to New Orleans. What do you get? Big Easy Go, a different kind of pro-New Orleans campaign – a project as whimsical and seemingly impossible as the Big Easy itself.

Our mission is simple: to encourage Americans and funhogs worldwide to return to New Orleans, a city eager – and ready – for tourists of all ages to come back.

Our unlikely convoy will depart Los Angeles on May 20, 2007, led by our founder Gregory Thurnher in his “Golf Car,” a revamped golf cart with a sixteen horsepower gas motor that began as his 2002 senior engineering project at Tulane University. We’re planning stops in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Louisiana during our two week-long journey. Along the way we plan to share our New Orleans experiences and encourage locals to come visit. . . we may even add some Southwesterners to our ranks and bring them along with us.

Most of us are current, former and future New Orleans residents, many of us are Tulane University alumni and students, and all of us are ready to act as ambassadors for the city we love and cherish.
                                                 
If all goes as planned we will reach New Orleans on June 1, 2007, breaking the world record for longest golf cart drive. We are planning a party to celebrate our arrival and the revival of the city, with local music and food at Tulane University.

The road to recovery since Hurricane Katrina has been long and hard for everyone on the Gulf Coast, and New Orleans still has progress to make. But the Crescent City is open for business and we want to spread the word. If our rag-tag convoy can make it to New Orleans, then anything is possible. And New Orleans can make it back, too.

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