Into Alabama
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Day 4: November 7, 2020 Into Alabama Comment via blog Check Granny's letters of the day |
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Three places come to mind when I think of breakfast in Nashville. The
Loveless Cafe is miles out of town in the wrong direction. The Pancake
Pantry tends to be crowded and doubly so on Saturday. The third is the
Hermitage Cafe.
It was just a couple of blocks off the route and not overly crowded. I sat
at the counter as I believe I've done also on every previous visit. That
allowed me to get a picture of my meal being plated and one of it about to
be deplated.
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Granny did not mention this church although she did mention the town it's
in, College Grove. In 2001, Chris and I met a fellow named Kenneth who
showed us around inside the church. Today it was surrounded by cars. Maybe
one of them was Kenneth's.
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This is a pair of courthouses in towns that Granny mentioned Marshall
County's in Lewisburg and Lincoln County's in Fayetteville.
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I remembered Granny writing about seeing lots of cotton fields in Alabama
so I took this picture of one shortly after I entered the state. I figured
I'd soon have a big collection and do a whole panel on cotton but this
turned out to be the last cotton field I saw. Now the road is lined with
gas stations, restaurants, car lots, and pretty much every other sort of
commercial operation you can think of.
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I took a hurried through-the-window shot of this line of painted panels
while stopped in traffic at the north edge of Huntsville. I pulled over
and walked back to take some better pictures or so I thought. I quickly
realized that, if I wanted to duplicate the view I had from the car, I
would have to step into the non-stop line of traffic speeding past. I
stayed safe and settled for a couple of oblique shots.
Back at the car, I decided to check on the rest of the world before returning to the road. It was just before noon when I fired up my phone and was greeted by the headline "Kamala Harris Makes History". It was, of course, a followup to this item that was published a few minutes earlier. At least I and 36.5% of the other people in Alabama were happy. |
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The Madison County courthouse in Huntsville looks a little different than
those I pictured earlier and the area around it was a lot busier.
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Huntsville was built around a large spring that remains an important part
of the city. Big Spring Park is just a short distance from the courthouse
and it was hopping too. The wedding party was just one of several
professional looking photo shoots taking place and there was an abundance
of people walking alone or with family or pets or just lounging on the
grass.
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Back near the courthouse, I took a break at
Green
Bus Brewing. My first beer, a Porter, disappeared too quickly for a
photo so I'm showing the Red Irish Ale that was my second. Both were 10
ounces. As my first beer after the big political news, I guess they could
be called celebratory but the real celebratory beer was an end of the day
Nitro Vanilla Porter at the motel.
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There was a Captain D's close to where I stayed last night and I used
their drive-through to get a catfish dinner. Tonight, this is the view
from just outside my motel room. Some people stress variety entirely too
much.
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