Alabama

Year of First Visit – 1998
Point of Entry – I-59 near Livingston

My first time in Alabama was a trip through the middle of Alabama. Most of my memories there, though, are from trips to the Orange Beach area.

We had a couple of different training retreats for work in that area. The church rented a neighboring beach houses in the off season so we flew into Pensacola and drove over.

That’s where I got to drive Linda Costello’s Porsche. More importantly, I was able to establish and build relationships with people who became important connections for me.



We also visited this area when visiting friends (Peavys, Carnahans) in the Pensacola area. On all our Gulf Coast trips we went up to Foley to have rolls “throwed” at us for dinner.

The church doesn’t rent the beach houses any more. (I don’t know if they survived the hurricanes that hit them directly.) The friends who lived there have moved on in life.

With all the reasons I went to Alabama having moved on, Alabama may only be visited by me in memories from this point forward.

Redirecting

So, clearly my initial blogging plans have changed direction and this particular blog has gone cold for a while.

As many of you know, I've been off of work for while I get healed up from an illness. To keep my writing skills from total atrophy, I started a little project on the side. It's simply a memoir of the different states I've been in. I've gotten quite a few done though clearly not all of them.

For your entertainment pleasure, I'm going to start posting the ones I have done here on Fridays for a while. I'll be posting basically alphabetically. I've been in 45 states so far so if you see a state skipped that means either I haven't been there yet or I haven't figured out what to say.

At any rate, enjoy the memories with me.

Thanks for reading.