A couple of weeks ago, I tagged along with three friends to Alabama. They went for the dirt roads on their motorcycles, and I went for a support role (if needed) and for the photo ops. First stop was Anniston, about 50 miles East of Birmingham next to Talladega National Forest, Chehea State Park and not far from the Superspeedway and the International Motorsports Hall of Fame. (I toured the Hall but the speedway was off limits.) Next stop, Selma. No photos of the Edmund Pettus Bridge—it would be too cliché even for me. Drove the backroads including lots of dirt roads and gravel roads. Cotton fields and churches abound. Saw both sides of the “tracks” in these towns showing stunning contrasts. Even some of the churches were abandoned. Here are a few shots. The first one is a slave house.