Apparently I don’t have any problems adjusting from Charlotte’s close embrace to the expanses of my room at the B&B. I slept like a lamb. Breakfast is actually pretty good, home cooked cheesey grits that were fantastic, fruit, bacon, sausage, eggs, coffee and juice. Happily content and well rested it’s off to check out the USS […]
Miscellaneous
Sweet Home Alabama (part 2)
So after the joys of Birmingham, it was off south to the second of the big 3 Alabama cities – Montogomery, AL, where Rosa Parks (Rosa Parks) famously refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man, sparking the Civil Rights movement. It is also where Martin Luther King Jnr was a pastor, and […]
Sweet Home Alabama
It’s with an uncertain mind that I leave Chattanooga and head towards Alabama. Oft portrayed as the home of backwards rednecks, smack bang in the middle of the famed “bible belt”, and part of the deep south, I’m not sure what I will encounter. The most northern of the main cities is Birmingham, AL, a town […]
Chattanooga Choo Choo
On the drive south from Lexington, there is a natural stop at the world famous Chattanooga, TN I’m not really sure why it’s famous, but that name is well known out of the States, as far as I know. Chattanooga is a really pretty place, nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, and wedged between […]