Sun., 3 Mar 13

Like last week we woke up a few minutes before the 6 am wake-up call.

Dressed and downstairs for the continental breakfast - cereal, toasted bagels and orange juice. Placed the computer and safe (we keep our passports in it) in the trunk and were on our way again.

Good travelling again. Spotted signs for TigerDirect.com warehouse (billed as the world's largest computer store). Just had to stop. The store is huge with a warehouse next door that was the size of the Walmart distribution center back home.

The item (a Wi-Fi antenna booster) I wanted were not available. My current Wi-Fi booster (Alpha) doesn't run on Windows 8. Their boosters were router boosters for in home range increases not antenna boosters for laptops. The antenna boosters they sell are shipped directly from the manufacturer. This is the reason that I did not order one - in case it is back-ordered and we change RV parks - getting it could be tricky.

We continued on with a stop at Cracker Barrel in Montgomery, AL for supper. We had to fuel so we decided to do both at the same stop.

Today, they were re-enacting the Selma to Montgomery Freedom Marches with a Montgomery bridge crossing today.


The Selma to Montgomery marches, also known as Bloody Sunday and the two marches that followed, were marches and protests held in 1965, that marked the political and emotional peak of the American Civil Rights Movement. All three marches were attempts to march from Selma to Montgomery (State Capitol), in Alabama. 

The first march took place on March 7, 1965 — "Bloody Sunday" — when 600 marchers, protesting the death of an unarmed Jimmie Lee Jackson (church deacon and civil rights protester) who was killed by an Alabama State Trooper. They were also protesting their ongoing exclusion from the electoral process. They were attacked by state and local police with billy clubs and tear gas.

The second march, the following Tuesday, resulted in 2,500 protesters turning around after crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

The third march started March 16. The marchers averaged 10 miles a day along the "Jefferson Davis Highway" (US-80). Protected by 2,000 soldiers of the U.S. Army, 1,900 members of the Alabama National Guard under Federal command, and many FBI agents and Federal Marshals, they arrived in Montgomery on March 24, and at the Alabama State Capitol on March 25.

The route is memorialized as the Selma To Montgomery Voting Rights Trail, a U.S. National Historical Trail.

The delays at TigerDirect and Cracker Barrel made our arrival later than planned. The driving was good all the way. We got in after 8 pm.

We unpacked the car and were in bed by 9 pm. It was just another 1500 mile weekend.