From Brighton, we drove to Miami - For this part of the trip, I have few photos and no memory of exactly where we stopped each night. I think this part of the trip took eight or nine days.
after we left Colorado
It's so flat it must by Kansas
In those days gas was really this cheap per gallon. Sometimes you got green stamps or dishes too. And maps were free. Back then the only credit card we had was a gas card. Which was only for buying gas. We had Sunaco, Shell and Texaco.
Shot out the back of the Plymough
Maybe we are in Missouri now
The KATY railroad was in Kansas, Texas and Missouri. It wasn't just in present day Katy TX.
I know we would have crossed the Mississippi
Dad's photo of the VW through the back window of the Plymouth
Both cars at one of the motels. Where is BB?
I have this documentation that we were in Alabama
I am sure the Alabama signs no longer have George Wallace's name on them. He was the 45th and longest serving Governor of Alabama -(1963–1967; 1971–1979; 1983–1987) When he was running in the Presidential primaries in 1972, he was shot and was paralyzed from the waist
He was 'famous' for a speech in 1963 when Wallace declared: In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. He earned national notoriety blocking the path of Black students by standing in front of the doors of the University of Alabama. He did modify his stance on segregation in the 70s.
There is also a black comedian named George Wallace b. 1952 and still living.
Another motel, or a gas station - judging by the flowers, farther east
The Plymouth entering onto Ernest Vandiver Causeway which is between Barbour County, Alabama, and Quitman County Georgia.
Looking back at the VW
THe Causeway crosses Lake Eufalaula
and Georgia - One of the Original Colonies
We're still back there
Kudzu covering the trees beside the road
D looking at a flower
Dad's favorite - a Sunset at the Sunset Motel
Brighton to Miami - 2084 miles 8 or 9 days
after we left Colorado
It's so flat it must by Kansas
In those days gas was really this cheap per gallon. Sometimes you got green stamps or dishes too. And maps were free. Back then the only credit card we had was a gas card. Which was only for buying gas. We had Sunaco, Shell and Texaco.
Shot out the back of the Plymough
Maybe we are in Missouri now
The KATY railroad was in Kansas, Texas and Missouri. It wasn't just in present day Katy TX.
I know we would have crossed the Mississippi
Dad's photo of the VW through the back window of the Plymouth
Both cars at one of the motels. Where is BB?
I have this documentation that we were in Alabama
I am sure the Alabama signs no longer have George Wallace's name on them. He was the 45th and longest serving Governor of Alabama -(1963–1967; 1971–1979; 1983–1987) When he was running in the Presidential primaries in 1972, he was shot and was paralyzed from the waist
He was 'famous' for a speech in 1963 when Wallace declared: In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. He earned national notoriety blocking the path of Black students by standing in front of the doors of the University of Alabama. He did modify his stance on segregation in the 70s.
There is also a black comedian named George Wallace b. 1952 and still living.
Another motel, or a gas station - judging by the flowers, farther east
The Plymouth entering onto Ernest Vandiver Causeway which is between Barbour County, Alabama, and Quitman County Georgia.
Looking back at the VW
THe Causeway crosses Lake Eufalaula
and Georgia - One of the Original Colonies
We're still back there
Kudzu covering the trees beside the road
D looking at a flower
Dad's favorite - a Sunset at the Sunset Motel
Brighton to Miami - 2084 miles 8 or 9 days
- Next entry in the series 'Driving Coast to Coast - Three Cross Country Trips 1964-1966': Taking the Southern Route - Miami to Key West - The End of the Trip
- Previous entry in the series 'Driving Coast to Coast - Three Cross Country Trips 1964-1966': Taking the Southern Route- Sand Dunes to Silver Cliff to Uncle Harry's house - Day 8 & 9
