Into Red Bay, Alabama

We headed over the Hwy 45, up to the I 78 E, then up a winding country road to arrive in Red Bay, Alabama about 11. a.m. They say the deep south doesn't get any deeper than Alabama. It was discovered by the Spanish at Mobile Bay in 1519, given to the British in 1763 at the end of the French and Indian War. It became the 22 state in 1819 and Montgomery became the first capital of the Confederacy in 1861, when cotton was king. Now peanuts, soybeans, corn and more share the soil. This was where the bus boycott was launched when Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger. In 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led the march from Selma to Montgomery to protest voting inequities. Today, Louisiana has nearly 5 million people and is 28th in size. You will see silver-green Spanish moss covering the oak trees in the south but it is neither Spanish, nor moss. It is an epiphyte, a plant that lives off the moisture in the atmosphere taking nourishment from the tree's cells. It can grow as long as 25 feet.
We're now parked in the Allegro Campground. It is large with 100+ spaces, water turned off at present due to weather and over 50 bays with 2 service technicians in each for your warranty work. This is a small pleasant little town. The houses are mostly brick or local yellow stone and all have swings and rocking chairs of the front porch. You can only imagine the summer heat. The town park commemorates the citizens who served in the wars.