Cool country roads. Until we got to US 80 which was about the last 10 min of a 1 hour drive, we saw maybe 6 cars.
Welcome to Selma. It was a Sunday morning about 10:00 so it was pretty quiet around town.
I walked across the Edmond Pettus bridge. It was an emotional experience.
This was the site of Bloody Sunday that is explained briefly on this sign.
There were several museum that were all closed because it was Sunday. We did encounter a street vender named Columbus who was selling T-shirts.
Really wanted to get to Selma because it was sort of part of my childhood in that My Dad was among other things, a Civil Rights Activist. And he would talk to me about what was going on in the Sourh. And when I saw the movie Selma, it brought up a lot of those memories. So I decided I wanted to get to Selma when we came back this way.
Near the bridge there is also monument and museum dedicated to the passage of the Voting rights act of 1965
Below is the church were Martin Luther King illegally assembled prior to the March.
We then headed to Mongomery to see the first state capital also called the confederate White House where Dr. King spoke to 25,000 marchers who marched the 60 miles from Selma to Mongomery
Had lunch at Mellow Mushroom. Had a pretty good vegan pizza
Then we headed off to Tennessee
We checked into our Wyndham Timeshare. Really nice unit as usual.
Had dinner and a beer at village pub and beer garden
And that's the end of a long day. We'll catch you again tomorrow.
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