Greetings from Alabama!
I never got around to doing an update of my first-ever visit to Chicago last summer,1 but I was there (really!), so it finally got shaded in on the map of TDot’s Travels.
While pulling up the map in Photoshop, I also noticed that for several years now Alabama remained the only state in the Southeast I still hadn’t visited.
Alabama is covered! Next: the Ohio River Valley
Well I’ve now driven across it twice this weekend — so it gets shaded too! 
One of é›…é›…’s friends from optometry school was getting married in New Orleans this weekend, and after just flying to Memphis two weeks ago for her graduation2 I was/am too poor to afford another plane ticket so soon.
So we’re currently driving back from New Orleans after driving down there two days ago, and stopped here in Auburn at a Firehouse Subs for lunch 
The downside of course is that we’ll have both been stuck in the car for roughly 26 hours over a 72-hour period — the equivalent of three whole workdays 
— but it provided a low-cost chance to go back to New Orleans, catch up with one of my closest friends and political allies from undergrad (currently a 2L at Tulane), see the southern edge of Mississippi, and travel through Auburn / Montgomery / Mobile in Alabama 
We’ve gotta get back on the road so that’s it for now, I’m off to resume enjoying this sub and gearing up to drive the next leg of the trip to/through Atlanta. Y’all have a great rest of the Memorial Day weekend!
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From the law:/dev/null travel-related archives:
- Auburn, AL: Greetings from Alabama! (05/25/14) [this post]
- St. Louis, MO: Greetings from St. Louis! (03/24/12)
- Washington DC: Greetings from Washington (briefly)! (02/26/12)
- Memphis TN x2: TOP 8!!! (02/18/12)
- New Orleans LA: Greetings from New Orleans! (02/02/12)
- Charleston SC: Greetings from Charleston! (10/15/11)
- Toronto CN: Back in the USA! (08/07/11)
- Atlanta GA: Getting caught up (03/12/11)
- Williamsburg VA: Greetings from Williamsburg! (02/25/11)
- Orlando FL: Greetings from Orlando! (12/27/10)
- Virginia Beach VA: Snowmageddon 2010 (12/26/10)
- Memphis TN: Back in the Bull City (10/03/10)
- Wilmington NC x2: Greetings from Wilmington! (Again) (08/27/10)
- Outer Banks NC: Spontaneity FTW (07/05/10)
- Northeast NC: Enjoying a slow roll down NC186 (12/27/09)
- Boone NC: “Tendencies” (11/21/09)
- Asheville NC: Greetings from the Blue Ridge Parkway! (10/29/09)
- Wilmington NC: Greetings from Wilmington! (08/29/09)
- Which included being quizzed by TSA for having a few thumb drives in my briefcase, my first airplane being attacked by its onboard toilet (necessitating a flight change) and then the next being plagued by a malfunctioning battery (necessitating another flight change), a 30-minute conversation with a taxi driver who was almost better versed in the law than I was, and all sorts of other craziness
[↩] - That’s the main reason I started the series on my interviews with the NCSU Libraries — it made posting entries easier while I was away from the Bull City
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