Week 67: Aliceville, Alabama

Aliceville Federal Prison

Alabama, you've got the rest of the Union
to help you along.
What's going wrong?

From Alabama by Neil Young

I have been to Montgomery, Alabama for a wedding, and it was very nice. The rehearsal dinner was at the house of the bride's uncle, I believe, and I remember thinking that they could easily seat 100 guests in the house. We sat outside; they could seat a few hundred more out there.

This week I am in Aliceville, Alabama, about 18 miles past the Mississippi border. Aliceville is a town of about 2,100 people, and the biggest deal in town appears to be the federal prison, which houses 1,647 inmates, so says Google.

It's a long walk across Alabama, all the way from west to east, and a long ways north to south as well, about 280 miles total. I will be here six more weeks at least.

My string of days over 10.000 steps per day ended this week, as I spent a couple of days away from home and doing a lot of driving. My new streak is one day, assuming I make it today, which I have not yet, but probably will. Also, I will stop going to Jubilee Bridge Club twice every week, at least if things work out at Olympia Bridge Club, so I won't put in as many steps as I did during December. Still, I have walked over 11,000 steps per day average as planned.

Alabama, Georgia, Florida. We're making progress.