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November 21, 2007
Albertville, AL

We arrived in Albertville today as scheduled (+/- 10 minutes - not bad for an 1,800 mile drive).

Yesterday was another straight drive, just with an early start. We had stopped for the night just west of Ft Worth, and I wanted to get an early start to avoid traffic. We hit the road just after 5:00 AM, and were able to successfully get to the east of the city before too much traffic was on the road.

We had pretty good driving conditions, with the exception of bad roads in populated areas (Shreveport, Vicksburg, Jackson). There wasn't as much traffic as we'd expected, and even the construction zones didn't generate too much of a delay.

Last night, we made it to the Alabama line on I-20. We stopped at the state Welcome Center. We had stopped there before (as we had at several of our stops on this trip), so we knew there would be plenty of parking. There was and it was relatively quiet. Or maybe we were just tired after 3 days on the road. We parked next to another RV and they were gone in the morning when we got up, and we didn't hear a thing.

As we continued east through Mississippi and into Alabama, we saw more foliage; leaves were falling all along our route. We stopped for provisions in Attalla just off the Interstate, and rolled into Albertville around 2:00 PM, just as it started to rain.

Once we were set up, we headed for the nursing home to visit Mom. She was getting ready to take a nap, so we interrupted that, but she stayed awake to talk a little bit. She's still pretty weak and it's sooo hard to hear her when she tries to talk, but she was more alert than I'd expected her to be. We're not sure she knew who we were, but she was polite about it anyway. We'll stop back tomorrow after we watch the parade.