Quick Report

We wound up in Montgomery Alabama on night one.  It was a long, 650 mile segment.  The drive went relatively well.  For a brief period of time the blower fan in the van would stop and restart but the problem luckily went away.  I am crossing my fingers it does not reoccur.  I don’t feel like trying to replace a fan motor on the road.  I also need to do a quick repair to the tailpipe that was either stepped on or just dropped due to rusting.  Now there is a hole in the rear section of it.

The dogs have been handling the travel well.  They sleep for the most part with the occasional episode of ramminess.  Sadie’s favorite spot is Ali’s lap, Nicki prefers the bed in the back. 

The weather during the first half of the drive was on and off thunderstorms all the way into Southern Georgia.  Along the drive we passed a lot of pretty rolling countryside.  We also passed a lot of areas where you scratched your head when thinking about how these people did simple things like get groceries.  Certain areas just seemed very isolated and extremely rural.  We saw a lot of dilapidated structures, similar to what we encountered in the drive to to NE Georgia.

Today we have a short day with a lunch stop in Birmingham followed by a relatively short drive to today’s endpoint, Memphis. 

I have been fighting with the full moon shadow right now.  It has a magnetic pull on my mood right towards the “bad” part of the meter.