Category: Road Trip 2016

Day 7 – Sun 7/17 – Civil Rights in Selma, AL

307 mile drive to Selma, where for a change from motels I am staying at the haunted St. James Hotel for $79. Except that they didn’t have my reservation, saying that the Internet site link to their booking...

Day 8 – Mon 7/18 – Civil Rights in Montgomery, AL

51 miles, less than an hour by car instead of 5 days by foot to Montgomery. Civil Rights Memorial Center opposite the Southern Poverty Law Center remembers those slain during the civil rights struggle, very moving....

Day 10 – Wed 7/20 – The Confederacy Surrenders

Appomattox Court House, the final surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. Lee was attempting to retreat from Richmond to regroup with forces from the Carolinas, but was...

Home at last

It’s been a long fun ride. 2,839 miles, 60 gallons of gas. But did I find America? I feel I did. The America I found talking to so many friendly people is full of...