SUBSTANTIALISCIOUS!...

Just outside of Nashville on the way to Tuscaloosa, Alabama...

Here we are now after a pit stop, buying an inverter for my laptop, getting Mt. Dew, Kippered Beef Steak and a SUBSTANTIALISCIOUS...

While waiting line for the 1 stall men's "bathroom" we ran into this guy who was doing the "pee-pee" dance so bad that Charlie let him cut in line. While everyone was waiting for someone to come out, the man was talking about how he was struggling raising four kids and one who has cerebal palsy. Funny as he left he shouted to us "God Bless you guys". How surreal. It's really amazing the stories you find out about people when you're on the road!

We now pass the rocket at the rest area entering Alabama about 40 miles outside of Huntsville, we were noticing the old plantation-style houses with the old shack-like "slave quarters"... An image that drives home the fact that we definitely are in the south. After seeing that image Charlie had asked Steve and I if we had been to the National Civil Rights Museum. So it looks like we're going to make another stop on our journey.

I find it humorous that a major fireworks store is also a gas station... hmmm.

.. oh, what a trip it's been... and we're just getting started.