It’s 290 miles from our house to our grandchildren’s house.  Well, it’s their parents house. From our hotel in Montgomery to our hotel in Vicksburg it’s… 290 miles.  So, this is our new measure of distance.  Our longest day will be just over two Spokanes.

We made two stops along the way.  The National Memorial for Peace and Justice opened in Montgomery, AL earlier this year.

It’s the first national memorial for 4,400 victims of racial terror lynchings.  These continued well into the 1900’s.  It’s a sacred place and being there is a powerful experience.  Those metal boxes hang from the ceiling and commemorate one to many victims per county.

We stopped in Selma to see the Edmund Pettus bridge.  The bridge was the backdrop to some key events in the Civil Rights Movement.

We spend the rest of our one-Spokane trip cruising along.  It’s hot and humid down here, so we did not spend a lot time out of the car.  Lots of speed traps, but we made it through unscathed.  The nearest Starbucks is forty miles away… Unheard of where we come from.