"Way Down Yonder in the Land of Cotton"

On our second day, we left too early for the hotel breakfast and kept a look out for food that fit in better with our theme. We knew we'd know where when we saw it...and we saw it! We drove by a storefront with a big glass window and Rob and I both immediately noticed a big table with a bunch of old men sitting around it.

Breakfast took a little longer than we planned, but it was worth it. We were instantly locals when we walked through the door. When we ordered breakfast, a woman calling herself "Granny" came from the kitchen and held her hands out to hold the baby.The pancakes were absolutely fabulous! As we left we saw a handwritten sign that said "Screamers", I think it was an ice cream parlor by night.


We passed several fields of cotton - it was like a field of sticks with little puffs hanging on it.I didn't pick any! But I did pick up a piece that had fallen to the ground. In the puff I picked up, there were 4 or 5 seeds and we are going to see if they will grow.

Midday, we found a terrific playground in Troy, Alabama.

The kids thought it was fun to jump off of this stump.

Of course on the road you always see strange things - like a car with a tail:
And an anthropomorphized peanut:

And before we knew it we were in Syrupmaker Country (the highschool mascot of Cairo, Georgia):

Some old gas stations we found along the way:



And this one still worked!
Rob said he thought the gas from the dial pump lasted longer than the gas from the digital pumps...

Coming up: Two very different cemetaries, Mako spots a manatee, and Krome sweet Krome.