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Today is the 500th day of my walk across the United States, and I find myself near Highland Home, Alabama, just under 100 miles from Georgia. There will be a 600th day before I finish, but not too many after that.
Going forward, I will leave Alabama in less than three weeks, go through Georgia in a week, then spend 90 days or so in Florida before reaching Miami. Early June.
I have missed my 10,000 steps per day goal 51 times since the beginning, which seems like a lot to me, but 36 of those were in 2021, only 15 since. Twelve of the fifteen days I was on vacation or driving most of the day. So I think it's a good record.
As the picture shows, there are things to see in Alabama, but as I have walked through Arkansas, Mississippi, and now Alabama, I have been reminded of the racism that is an undeniable part of the history of the South. Many of the things the Internet suggests for you to see in these states are civil rights memorials, landmarks and museums; the reason so much of the civil rights movement took place in the South is that black people here were suppressed by open institutional racism. Current politics are a reminder that the racism never went anywhere. The South is still a source of shame.
One hundred days to go. Plus a week or two.
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