{"id":579,"date":"2019-06-03T08:41:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T12:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larrykooper.com\/?p=579"},"modified":"2019-06-03T08:41:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T12:41:29","slug":"day-12-walking-in-deserted-montgomery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/03\/day-12-walking-in-deserted-montgomery\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 12: Walking in deserted Montgomery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Athens, GA to Montgomery, AL <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still in Athens, I was looking for a Starbucks and unwittingly drove onto a deserted U of Georgia campus. I parked right next to the football stadium &#8212; as lavish as an NFL one.  Starbucks turned out to be in the student center and was closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Going through Atlanta, I was on a highway that had six lanes in each direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later, I was looking for a picnic spot so of course searched for one on Google Maps. I found something labeled &#8220;Tinsley Mill Ruins,&#8221; and drove toward it,  but the directions led to a cul de sac in a private community. I was sure Google was mistaken, but then I saw a sign saying &#8220;pedestrian walk path.&#8221; I followed the path and sure enough, there was a beautiful picnic spot with some structures that could have been ruins. I thought someone was going to evict me at any moment, but people kept passing in golf carts and no one did anything except wave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_8366-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-584\"\/><figcaption>At Tinsley Mill Ruins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I entered Alabama, State #12. I gained one hour as I went to Central Time. <br>I&#8217;m in Alabama, a state I&#8217;ve never been in before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I got to Montgomery. Saw almost no one on the streets. (That&#8217;s turning into a theme of my visits to southern cities, except for Savannah.) Went to my hotel, the Hampton Inn. The lobby is beautiful. It&#8217;s an old hotel, the Greystone, renovated.  It was built in 1927. The hotel staff were really nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_8372-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-580\"\/><figcaption>Hampton Inn Downtown Montgomery &#8211; Lobby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I went out. It was hot but bearable. A lot of things are closed on Sunday afternoon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_8375-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-581\"\/><figcaption>Downtown Montgomery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_8377-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-582\"\/><figcaption>Downtown Montgomery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Went into The Alley, renovated industrial buildings with restaurants and bars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_8385-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-583\"\/><figcaption>The Alley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I had a beer at Sa Za&#8217;s bar in the alley.  It was nice to just sit and drink a beer and catch the occasional breeze. There wasn&#8217;t much else to do in downtown Montgomery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athens, GA to Montgomery, AL Still in Athens, I was looking for a Starbucks and unwittingly drove onto a deserted U of Georgia campus. I parked right next to the football stadium &#8212; as lavish as an NFL one. Starbucks turned out to be in the student center and was closed. Going through Atlanta, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}