The kids and I took a tour of CNN. The kids thought it was great. Maybe because I don't respect CNN I had many snide thoughts, and even comments, during the tour.
We made a trip to the Carter Presidential Library and Museum. The kids are surprisingly interested in presidential libraries. After about an hour or so, Calvin and I went outside and walked around the beautiful grounds while E and Matt finished up the museum. The main take aways: 1) We'd be in a total different place as a country if Carter had success with alternative energy sources the way he'd hoped to. He put solar panels on the White House; Reagan took them down! 2) Diplomacy! Too bad GW doesn't know about that!
I always love to go hiking. Thanks to Carol, the GPS, we came close by taking a National Parks Service road in Alabama.
In Alabama we found this gift shop near Tuskegee. Eleanor met Ms. Eleanor in the trailer, which was too crowded to walk in. I paid $1.60 for a postcard for my Eleanor and then Ms. Eleanor gave my Eleanor a Susan B. Anthony doll. Side note: Tuskegee has no memorial to the men who died in the Syphilis study. We went to the Tuskegee Airmen National Park Service site, where we learned that there will be a site for the men done by the summer.
We're in Selma now. It's pouring rain, so we waiting to get going. Everyone is waiting in line behind me to use the computer. I'll have to write more later about Tuskegee and Selma. They are so poor and left behind that it's really an emotional journey through these Civil Rights sites of the South.
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