January 7, 2022
Headed out at about 9:30 am. Once again we are on a backroad, Highway 82. We pass the most interesting things and I am always googling to see what we passed. As we went through Cuthburt, Georgia we saw a huge building, unfortunately I was not able to get a picture of it, but had to look up what that huge building was in this small town. It was a 4 year woman’s college, Andrew College, established in 1854. The big building was built in 1893 after another building had burned down and was the entire college from dorms to classrooms.
We crossed the Chattahoochee River as we passed out of Georgia into Eufaula, Alabama. We were surprised to see the name of the river we were crossing as we lived just a mile from the Chattahoochee in Roswell, Georgia and had no idea where it went after Atlanta.
We are traveling the road of the Civil Rights March today we started in Montgomery and headed into Selma. The Civil Rights March started in Selma and headed into Montgomery in March 1965. I remember watching this as an 8 year old child on TV with my parents and wondering how one person could treat another so badly. We drove through downtown Montgomery before arriving in White Hall, Alabama where on Freedom Road we visited the Lowndes Interpretative Center, which was a powerful experience as we walked through the memories of that time, then on to Selma, Alabama.
We drove through 3 states today. Started off in Georgia, crossed Alabama and are spending the night in Mississippi. We are at a KOA in Toomsuba, Mississipppi. We got in at about 4:30 pm and immediately headed to the laundry room to do our wash for the second time on the trip. I was hoping to wait until home but the weather had turned cold and all my warm clothes were dirty. By the time we finished our wash the temperature here had dropped to 38 degrees. We were glad to get back in our nice warm RV. We had leftovers for dinner. I really need to learn to cook smaller portions because three nights of stir-fry was a little much but I really hate wasting food. No game tonight and turning in early as we are exhausted.
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