In March, 2015 it will have been 50 years since the two aborted and one successful civil rights marches from Selma to Montgomery. In December next year, it will have been 60 years since Rosa Parks said that she was just too damn tired to give up her seat in the front of a Montgomery bus for a white man.
Soooooo....... Melanie & I are thinking of taking a week, probably next November before Thanksgiving, to walk the route of the march. It is now a National Historical Trail. It's only along a trunk road bordered by farms and small villages so I don't expect great views but it should be a decent walk anyway. It is 54 miles and flat as a lumpy pancake so it should only take three days to walk. We also plan to add a few days to see some historical sites and museums in Selma and Montgomery. We don't plan on camping along the way like the original marchers but there are no hotels / motels along way so we'd be ferrying back to a hotel in Selma or Montgomery after each day's walk then back again in the morning. Average temperatures in November in the area are 44 to 69 degrees and there are an average of 8 days of rain with 4.5 inches average precipitation in the month.
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I'm with you! And if I can't handle the walk, let me be the first to volunteer to be your ferrier (is that a word?).
Awesome. I'm pretty sure we could use a ferrier but you could also be a ferrieree too. Hitchhiking and/or taxis are also an option but ferriering may be the safest, cheapest option. Greyhound runs that route but the charge $50 per person each way. That option is out of the question.
So who is seen the movie? It is from MLK's point of view almost to a fault but I guess they need to tell someone's story.
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