After leaving Lake Junaluska, North Carolina we had a week off to travel to Pensacola, FL. We headed southwest into Georgia. Our trip took through the western North Carolina mountains.
Late in the morning we crossed into northern Georgia.
We stopped at Kennesaw Mountain National Battlerield and toured the historic site of the last battle before Atlanta in the civil war.
On Sunday with the time change in the morning we moved to Alabama and gained a second hour. We found it difficult for a couple of days to adjust to the double time change.
Our next stop was Horseshoe Bend National Park north of Auburn Alabama.
We toured the visitor center & took the audio tour around the park. This was the battle with the Creek Indians, where Andrew Jackson made his mark as a military leader.
We spent two nights at a campground with a small stream along part of the camping area. It rained all night & in the morning the lower sites were flooded from the stream. Luckily we were camped up on the higher area and did not have the same experience as this camper. The water receded before doing any damage.
We stopped at Tuskegee National Historic sites.
The air museum was a training base for the first black fighter pilots during WWII.
We went to Tuskegee Institute also. It featured George Washington Carver who taught farming techniques to black farmers after the civil war.
We toured Loundes Interperetive Center for the civil rights trail from Selma to Montgomery.
We drove across the Edmund Pettus Bridge where the Civil Rights Marchers started the walk from Selma to Montgomery and had the clash with police.
We went to the First White House of the Confederacy which is where Jefferson Davis first lived during the start of the civil war in Montgomery.
We went to the Department of Archives & History. It has a museum inside about Alabama from the first settlers through the civil rights marches.
This was the church that was Martin Luther Kings pastorate and meeting place for civil rights.
We stopped to tour Old Alabama Town. There is a living and working area showing life prior to the civil war.
On Friday we arrived in Florida.
Friday afternoon we went to see the Blue Angels Homecoming airshow which is the last show of their tour season for the year.
They showed off their manuvers & skills. Flying in a diamond formation.
flying upside down,
All six in formation.
Splitting apart in a starburst formation.
Drawing a circle in the sky.
And performing an inverted star burst. It was a great show!
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