February 2011 Road Trip -part 1

getting ready…..

Part Two – beyond Birmingham thru Houston

Part Three – beyond Houston thru Seminole Canyon State Archeology Park

Part Four – beyond Seminole thru Santa Fe and Las Vegas NM

Part Five – beyond Las Vegas and home


Saturday 2/5/2011 – Cambridge and the Super Bowl

Packed up our camping equipment and drove to Cambridge. Arrived 2/5/2011. Stayed with Esther. Lots of snow.

Lunch Saturday with Paul and Ruth Richards. They gave us a travel gift.

Held our traditional Johnny D’s brunch with the usual crowd on Sunday 2/6/11.

Watched the Super Bowl with Bill Zinn and Nancy bridges at their house in Belmont. Stayed over. Packers defeated Steelers 31-25.

Monday 2/7/11 – Drive to Washington DC

Got to Harvey Meyerson and Betsy Keeler’s house in Silver Spring by evening.

Tuesday 2/8/11 – Stops in DC

Various museums, sculpture garden, DC Public library, Dinner with Bob Greenstein and Elissa Parker.

 

M L King Memorial Library – Washington DC. Mies van der Rohe architect. Opened in 1972. Now undergoing a complete overhaul.
Dinner here with Bob Greenstein and Elissa Parker

Wednesday 2/9/11 – Drive to Birmingham – night over on the way near Kingsport TN

Thursday 2/10/11 – Chattanooga TN and Birmingham AL

Stopped in Chattanooga because we saw the sign on Rt 75.

More interesting than just the name.

Came on this historical marker:

Interesting regional museum. Strong glass and ceramics collection.

Good didactic guides:

Had lunch and walked around the art district adjacent to museum.

On to Birmingham

At the first rest stop in Alabama. The lies and delusions continue…..

Dinner stop in Birmingham.

Friday 2/11/11 – Birmingham and beyond

19 degrees when we woke up. Who thought we were going to make camping part of this trip??

Karen had come to Birmingham as a young girl to visit her Aunt and Uncle. We went in search of the old neighborhood.

This is the street where her Uncle Bob had a deli.
Karen remembers this from the road to the neighborhood.

Sloss Furnaces – Birmingham

Birmingham was the Pittsburgh of the South.

Civil Rights Stops

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
16th st. Baptist Church – MLK statue in foreground

Lunch at a famous spot:

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