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#vanlife; Alabama

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{alabama} I started off my time in Alabama with a stop at the visitor information center to gather up some ideas of what to see and where to go; there are no shortage of options in a state I’d never visited before, but I narrowed it down to a few highlights that grabbed my interest.. I decided to save Birmingham for my next trip and headed towards Montgomery. My first stop in town was as the Freedom Riders Museum, which is actually inside the historic greyhound station where the attack on the freedom riders took place. It’s a small museum, but very interesting and with an incredible story to tell in the fight for civil rights. Freedom Riders Museum Along a walk through the downtown Montgomery I discovered the first White House of the confederacy, which is restored as a museum. The Alabama state Capitol is also in town, which was another interesting building to wander through. Downtown there were plenty more historic buildings to see, and I very much enjoyed the day explorin...