We've been very impressed by a couple of cities on this trip: Mobile and Birmingham. Mobile because it's funky and artsy. Birmingham is more establishment but has a nice feel too. I hadn't realized this was an old steel city which, like Pittsburgh, hit some really hard times. Also like Pittsburgh, though, it has done a lot to recover. Various automobile companies have built plants in Alabama, including Mercedes Benz just outside of Birmingham. The Birmingham downtown is very nice and walkable.
Especially impressive to us was the Birmingham Art Museum, which you can walk into for free. It had very nice permanent exhibits of European and American art, cool traveling exhibits, and a great little restaurant in a nice indoor courtyard. We are big fans!
We couldn't stick around too long, however, because we had to dash to Pigeon Forge TN to catch my high school friend, Matthias Varhola, performing in his show at the Dixie Stampede. More on Tennessee soon!
Dale Chihuly piece at Birmingham Art Museum.
Portrait of Booker T. Washington at Birmingham Art Museum. He was an amazing guy who spent his career at Tuskegee. You see mention of him a lot in Alabama.
Random painting of the Brandywine River (Pennsylvania, my home town!) in the Birmingham Art Museum by a chap named Bruce Crane.
Somewhat absurd quote on a pillar commemorating soldiers who died in the Civil War. Birmingham.
Going into Georgia. We were there about 20 min, on our way to Tennessee.
Going into Tennessee 20 min later. This was a very dangerous photo. Luckily, I had the guard rail between me and the traffic. Maddy was in a slightly different situation.
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