Grateful Giraffes Hit the Road
1300 miles, 300 gratitude shares, 100 people who don't know what NFTs are
Only a week ago, we flew to JFK to launch The Grateful Bus tour, a cross-country road trip to spread gratitude across the U.S. for 50 straight days leading up June 21st, World Giraffe Day and our public NFT launch!
After producing Tel Aviv’s first Gratitude Wall in April, we asked ourselves - how could we bring this concept to the U.S.? We landed on The Grateful Bus, a mobile Gratitude Wall which we could drive from city to city, inviting Americans from all walks of life to take a moment and remember all that there is to be grateful for. By some stroke of cosmic luck, one of our advisors had just put his RV up for sale, and a few Giraffes later, it was ours!
This past Monday we kicked off our 5,000 mile journey in Brooklyn, New York and headed south to the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia. We were so excited for this amazing journey to begin and only five minutes into the trip, we crashed into a pole at a gas station, destroying one of the side lights and dinging the left fender. Let’s face it; Giraffes can be clumsy (we fixed it) :)
In Philly we were fortunate to have Love City Brewing host us for an evening happy hour with friends and family and stopped by Drexel University for a surprise visit to a group of students who quickly gathered around the bus to get their gratitude on.
The next day we made our way down to College Park, Maryland, gathering some amazing gratitude shares from college students and even a few policemen! Coasting through DC we built a Giraffe Tower (a group of giraffes) in front of the Washington Monument before sending it down to Raleigh, NC for an amazing Friday night dinner with local young professionals who gladly got grateful as soon as the bus pulled up.
Before you could say “Grateful Giraffe Gratitude Guide”, we were on our way to Savannah, Georgia, stopping at the local park and the riverwalk, enchanted by the southern climate and magical trees providing shade before gunning it to Jacksonville for a quiet Saturday evening working in our RV. Along the way, we dressed in Giraffe Onesies, and asked many people what they knew about NFTs. Check out our Instagram for some amazing responses.
Sunday, we packed up the van, stopped in Daytona to spread the Mother’s Day gratitude, and capped off a wild week of creation & cruising on I-95 South by jumping in the pool at Selina Miami just before sunset.
This week, a few more team members will be flying down to meet us and paint a Grateful Giraffe mural in the Crypto Corridor. We’ll be sponsoring the Miami Tech Happy Hour and Miami Triathlon, and Thursday the GG founders will fly to Tulum to build a Gratitude Wall and speak at the first Tulum Crypto Conference about how NFTs can be used to elevate collective well-being! If you know anyone in Miami or Tulum who might want to connect with us - please feel free to reply to us at love@gratefulgiraffes.com and stay tuned along our journey 🦒🦒🦒
This Week’s Gratitude Boosts
We are on a mission to make gratitude practices more accessible, enjoyable, and social for millions of people. While we bring physical gratitude to the streets of America, in parallel we are hosting two new Gratitude Guides in Discord for our signature Gratitude Boost - a 10 minute live, guided meditation followed by intimate group gratitude sharing rooms. Come join us and meet some other Grateful Giraffes!
Today, May 9th, we’ll be hosting Marc Champagne, a mental fitness practitioner, author of Personal Socrates: Better Questions, Better Life and host of the top ranking podcast “Behind the Human”. Join us in Discord at 8:30 PST / 11:30 EST / 18:30 IL for a cool new experience that can help you start, reset, or end your day, depending on your time zone! Don’t forget to add it to your calendar here :)
Thursday, May 12th we’ll be hosting Ashlee Braxton, a close friend of GG & entrepreneur based in Barcelona, Spain who grew up in the music industry and now coaches groups, individuals and businesses to realize and reach their highest human potential. Add it to your calendar here!
As a reminder - if you want to get on the Grateful Giraffes Allow List and secure your spot in our Public Mint of Grateful Giraffe NFTs, attend one of our Boosts.
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