Im goin to Jackson...

so upon leaving Birmingham we had a tough few days rollin south on routes 119,25,5,and eventually 43. between those roads we got to stop in Briarfield State Park and saw Bibb Furnace, an old civil war Furnace used for manufacturing Confederate cannons for their navy until being demolished by the union forces. afterwards it was rebuilt and used until 1889 when the company that rebuilt it went under. after staying at briarfield we went south on 25 a few miles and made it to Six Mile, a small area with some awesome people. we stopped in at 6 miler grocery and were treated to lunch, advice on travels, route planning tips, road hunter stickers , and t-shirts! travelling down the road we also ran into a reporter from the North Bibb News. Daniel asked us some questions about our trip (i was impressed, hes too good to be at a small paper) and snapped our pictures and sent us to a restaurant on the south side of town called the Sawmeal restaurant where we got some southern cooking and enjoyed ourselves, and our dinner was payed for by the same fella that bought us lunch at Six Mile! then we headed south until just short of Marion where we camped by a church next to the Cahaba River once again. (last time was before Birmingham). Next few days were unremarkable except for a breif ride we got headed into a town where the driver was drunk as hell (had i known we wouldnt have gotten in but we didnt jump out for fear of losing our packs). anyway i gotta run but ill post soon. we should be in Mobile by the weekend so ill keep you posted!