One might think that after crossing the country twice in the past two years, we might have had enough, but given that we are about to do it once again, one may possibly come to the conclusion that we are just plain nuts. And perhaps we are. However, we are loving the national parks. Once you start visiting a few of them, you get hooked, for our government has set aside some of the most beautiful and impressive lands one could ever visit. And we plan to see as...

Today we drove home from Montgomery. We left at 7:20 AM and 43 degrees. We dressed as if it was 75 degrees because we knew that by the time we reached Florida, we would be miserable in genes. The early morning drive took us through small towns in Alabama. And we witnessed a lot of poverty. Many houses were run down and falling down, some abandoned by the roadside, and many people were living in old rusty single wide trailers. Life seemed better in Troy, a larger...

Dummy entry to allow for my starting point to be logged on the map.