What a day. Got and early start and we were off. We walked through Montgomery, Alabama today or to be more correct, we walked around Montgomery. Rain clouds threatened us early in the morning and then the sun came out. And then the clouds came back, with rain in them. Just as we reached the 12 mile mark and luckily a Hardee's restaurant, the sky open up and it rained hard. Ruth and Carol were driving in it to pick us up and they said they could barely see.
On the way back, we stopped off at the Habitat ReStore and met the manager, Bruce Taylor, and Director of Operation, ReStore, Jeff Thornell. Jeff works for all the ReStores in Alabama and his primary duties are to acquire merchandise from retail and wholesale suppliers. His family was in the retail furniture businesses and that connection must have paid off as the store was full of new furniture and appliances.
After lunch, we drove downtown to the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church where Dr. Martin Luther King served as pastor from 1954 to 1960. It was a meeting at this church that launched a boycott of the Montgomery public bus line. The boycott lasted one year and ended when city officials agreed to lift laws the discriminated against blacks. Some consider the Montgomery bus boycott as the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.
We then went to the Civil Rights Memorial Center that honors 40 individuals who died between 1954 and 1968 fighting for equal rights.
Then we were off to find Dreamland restaurant and some southern BBQ. Here's what happened. We found the street Dreamland was on. Carol rolled down the window and asked a man where Dreamland was. He pointed right across the street. Just then, a car pulled out of a parking spot not 2 car lengths away. We pulled in and we were feeding the parking meter, a lady yelled, "You don't have to put money in that after 4 pm". She started across the street and said she was going to work. It turns out that she worked at Dreamland. As we all walked in, LaCheryl, grabbed 4 menus and seated us immediately.
What service and the BBQ was great. If you get a hankerin for BBQ in Montgomery, AL, Dreamland is highly recommended.
Today we found .13 and a half cents. Stay tuned ...
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