Hi! You get Tim today for your daily Blog. Our day turned out pretty good. I got up and planned the day a bit. Once I had multiple plans in my head, I went off to work out. The work out room was severely small. Two women and I in this small room with a rack of hand weights, a bike and tread mill. When I went to the floor to do push ups, I swear their face was by my feet as they stretched out. Very odd.
We made a good decision to not get up and try for the first flight of the day. I don't think any of the 10 standbys got on. So they all rolled down to the 11:30 flight that we wanted to get on. We ended up being 16 & 17 on the priority list with 16 unsold seats. Fortunately, one person did not show up....so we both got on.
The flight was 2 hours and quite spectacular. The plane dodged fluffy white clouds the whole way there. It was a cool feeling as you soared among these pillow clouds!
I tried the online check in at the Alamo desk at the Atlanta rental car center. Naturally after messing with it for 10 minutes, it rejected me. I should have just got in line!
Alabama is very green. The drive was nice! It was fun watching Denise book our hotel for the night. I was very calm and supportive as she struggled to do my job. :-) she did great, in the end.
Beautiful skies!
All the older buildings are white....
These are the steps of the Capitol where the Selma walkers ended their 40+ mile walk.....
Jefferson Davis...they love him here.
Not sure who this statue is. Hopefully Denise knows.....
We asked a number of people where to get good BBQ and they all said Dreamland...at the Alley. The Alley is a gathering palace of many restaurants across from the AA baseball park and River Walk. The BBQ was ver tasty. A diet killer!
After eating, we headed to Selma, some 45 miles away. Having just watched the movie and the civil rights struggle to gain voting rights, we thought it would be cool to follow the road they took when marching to Montgomery. At the base of the bridge where Bloody Sunday occurred is a small memorial park. We stopped there to walk around for a moment.
The famous bridge spans the Alabama river. It is quite wide and pretty.
A couple of pictures on the bridge. Pretty amazing what went on here. Quite brutal and very wrong.
Selma was a pretty poor looking town. Even the monument areas were a bit run down. But since it is celebrating 50 years since the walk, there were some new plaques that had been put up.
We headed back to the wonderful hotel that my wife booked arriving at 8 pm, Montgomery time or 9 pm Georgia time. We did not realize that they were on different time zones which threw us for a loop. It was an awesome day!
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