We had a nice night in a comfy big bed, catching up on a bi of Duck Dynasty which became a slight motel obsession of ours! The next day we headed to the F. Scott Fitzgerald house in Montgomery which he shared with Zelda. I obviously had a literary geek out at the first editions of The Great Gatsby, tender is the night and just generally soaking n all the Fitzgerald genius and ambience. We then headed to the Civil Rights Memorial centre, where we heard first hand ...

Up and on the road we knew we had a couple of heavy days ahead of us. We started in Birmingham, also known for a long time as Bombingham due to the violence which erupted during the Civil Rights Movement. We visited the Civil Rights Institute which is situated across the road from the 16th Street Baptist Church where on on Sunday, September 15, 1963 as an act of white supremacist terrorism a bomb was detonated as a group of children met for the sermon entitled "...