Some roadtrips are more memorable than others. Western Canada, 14 beaches in two days, signing autographs for fans (“You’re the biggest celebrities we’ve ever had here), hanging out with the national board of the Eastern Star (sorry, we can’t divulge any secrets), being part of a pit crew at a Nascar racetrack, dinner in pitch dark in Montreal, and so much more.
This was not one of those trips. Ken was feeling “woozy” (my words, not his) for most of this trip, so we stayed in the car, driving through the pristine areas of Alabama and Mississippi. That wasn’t our original plan. As you know, we never have an original plan.
We started at the airport in Nashville, Tennessee, then worked our way south – primarily because it was cold and storming every where in the country … so we figured the beach was our best bet.
The only interesting place we found in Alabama was Selma, where we stopped by a few of the places associated with MLKJr’s march.
Okay, now that we’ve saved you a trip to Alabama (Selma is worth the visit…otherwise…well.
We planned to spend the night in Montgomery, but just couldn’t come up with a reason to stop there, so we headed due south, ending up at Panama City, Florida.
Should you ever have a reason to visit Panama City, we found the best spot to visit is the highway heading out of there. Let’s face it, unless you’re a group of 19-year-olds on Spring Break, Panama City just doesn’t get very exciting, unless you like highrise after highrise along the beach…placed in such a way that you can’t really see the beach.
We stayed in Panama City long enough to have lunch – did I mention that when we arrived in our hotel in Troy, AL, the night before, that they didn’t have a room for us?
On to Mississippi, since we’d pretty much seen all of Alabama. One other thing about Alabama. People in Huntsville – the largest city in AL – like to say they’re not really Alabamians. Straddling the line with Tennessee, they like to say they’re more like a Tennessee city. Don’t believe them.
Mississippi did have a few interesting moments:
We did find an interesting route back to Nashville. We took the Natchez Trace all the way from Tupelo, MS to Nashville. If you don’t know about the Natchez Trace, look it up.
The highlight of our quick roadtrip to AL & MS (we consider Panama City part of Lower Alabama):
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