Sweet Home Alabama

Hey!!

Sorry that I haven't posted in a while, but I left my power cord to my laptop in St. Augustine!! I did some shopping at a local flea market near where I've been staying when I got here in the great state of Alabama, and I found a new cord that works just as good as the old one did. I also got a new camera so I could take a picture of the power cord and show it to you, here it is:

But, anyways, I arrived here in Alabama on Friday, and the first stop I made in this great state was a place called Talladega Motor Speedway. If you've never heard of this place, then you're crazy. I went through some of the gates and passed by security on Saturday to see just what everybody was pushing and shoving each other inside for. Apparently, there's guys that actually race cars for a living! Who knew? But, I've never experienced anything like it before. It was quite loud I gotta say, and there were a few people acting strange. One of the funny things was, was that I saw grown men drinking out of baby bottles! I'm not sure though, I think that they were made of glass so that they'd possibly stand a chance a looking grown up while drinking from a childs bottle.
But, anyway, I got a few pictures that I wanted to show you while I was there, so here's a few:



sorry about your car there tony! maybe better luck next time!!


I don't know why, but people seem to go crazy when I do stuff like this!

here's a picture of a guy named Jeff Gordon. I snapped this picture before the race even started.

And here's a great one; This was actually on tv in fact. Here's the winner, Kyle Busch. If you look really closely, you can see me out on the track eating some cat food. hey, all I can say is that whoever left the cat food there made the mistake, not me.

But, seriously, I had a great time at the Talledega Motor Speedway on Saturday and Sunday. I gotta shed a little love on my boy Kyle Busch though. He did a pretty good job.

Okay, so, ya know that I can't do a blog entry without some history. I did some research whenever I got my new power cord and looked up a few places. One of these places is what I called "The really big building", mainly because I didn't know what the whole deal with it was. I'm sure it serves some historical reference. Does anyone know?? Here's a picture of it though:

Look familiar?? Okay, well, another thing I got to looking into was some of the stuff that happened around the time of the Civil War in Alabama. Check this out:

From my studies, I've come to find out that the last major battle of the Civil War, called the Battle of Columbus, was fought here in Alabama. One thing I learned though is that Columbus is actually a place in Georgia, but some of the fortifications were build just along a somewhat circular ridge on Alabama's side of the chattahoochee River. And, this battle actually took place on Easter Sunday, April 16, 1865. But when ya really get to looking into it, its really cool stuff. But here's a few other snapshots I got around Alabama:


I also looked up just a few side notes about Alabama. Here's a few:
1. Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama
2. its population in 1994 was 4,219,000 (yeh, I know,...who cares??)
3. it was the 22nd state to be admitted to the Union
4. Nicknamed "The heart of Dixie"



But, yeh, that's basically been my entire trip to Alabama this passed week. I'll try my best to post something wheneve I arrive at my next stop. Be sure to email me or post a comment so I can hear from you. Wherever you think I should go, hit me with an email and tell me about it! But, for now, I gotta get going! I'll see ya later!!

much love from a cat who's been to 3 states so far,

~Doug