Welcome to the first post in our series highlighting states we have visited throughout the years. I hope you will enjoy coming along for the ride! I will be featuring the states alphabetically starting with
Alabama
Alabama became the 22nd state on December 14, 1819. Montgomery is the capital and Birmingham is the largest city.
We’ve traveled through Alabama many times on our travels either at the beginning or the end of a long trip. All of our stays have been short so we haven’t been able to spend a lot of time exploring but we have enjoyed all of our visits there. Our travels never took us to the space center in Huntsville and we never had enough time to visit any of the Civil Rights museums or walk on the white sand beaches along Alabama’s Gulf Coast. We did enjoy many beautiful campgrounds and had fun cheering on the Dawgs when Georgia was the visiting team at Jordan-Hare stadium at the University of Auburn .
We spent our first ever night night on the road in Montgomery at the beginning of our cross country trip in 2006.
We discovered camping in Corps of Engineers parks on our way home from a three month trip in 2007.
Sunsets over the lakes and rivers in Alabama are some of the prettiest we’ve seen.
We love camping underneath Spanish Moss draped trees.
We love it when we discover a pretty, peaceful place to spend the night.
Scenic drives and walking trails made our stays at Oak Mountain State Park one of our favorite campgrounds of 2016.
We planned a couple of fall trips around the Georgia-Auburn game in Auburn.
We didn’t get to walk on the beautiful Gulf beaches in Alabama but we did stop for lunch at Flora-Bama on the state line between between Florida and Alabama.
Wandering Dawgs 
Whenever we’ve traveled south from Michigan, Alabama has been my ‘relax’ state. Theres something about the Spanish moss and the polite residents that put me at ease. 🙂
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I agree! When we are on our way back to Georgia from a trip farther west we like to find a nice spot in Alabama to kick back for a while for our last stop before home. And yes, the people are friendly!
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We love the Spanish moss too. Beautiful pictures!
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Thanks!
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What gorgeous camp sites and sunsets – wow. I love the Spanish moss. We saw some today for the first time. You did Alabama proud. 🙂
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Thank you Judy! Be careful if you decide to take some of that Spanish moss home. Red bugs grow in it.
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Thank you for the warning. I’ll leave it right where it is hanging. 🙂
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What a fun idea for posts for the New Year! We like Oak Mountain SP, too. Should you find your way back to Alabama, Dauphin Island is a wonderful stopover with lots of birds during spring migration.
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Laurel, thank you! Dauphin Island is on my list of places I’d love to visit.
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I fear that one of the things I’ll miss most with our new life is camping with the Corps.
However, Birmingham Alabama is the only city in the U.S. that I ever got stuck by a low underpass in my trucking days. Backing up nearly 1/2 a mile to get to a place I could turnabout was fun.
Dauphin Island is lovely. I’m sure you’ll enjoy it when you get there – whenever.
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Happy New Year Beth! I love the idea of this series of posts and look forward to hearing about all your favorites.
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Happy new year! Good to hear from you. I hope you enjoy the posts.
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I’ve spent some time this morning poking around your site and it’s an absolute treasure trove of great information for newbies like us. I’m especially looking forward to following this series. With some states, it’s tough to know where to even start when making our travel plans. This will be enormously helpful. Happy 2017!!
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Thanks for following my blog. I’m glad to hear you are finding useful information that can help you in your journeys. Enjoy your travels through the Florida Panhandle.
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We lived in Mobile for 3 years and fell in love with the white sandy beaches! We didn’t get around the state much, but we now know the NW corner from our now annual trips to Red Bay! We’ll use this to help with future trips, but for now, we’re headed to Dauphin Island for a week or so in February! Not sure where else we’ll go….
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We gotta laugh reading this post. As we were heading to Alabama Audrey quipped “whats in Alabama”. Then we experienced Alabama and now she wants more time there. Truly a wonderful cornucopia of beauty.
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We have found beauty and interesting things to see and do in every state we’ve visited.
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