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Septemer 22nd, we left Jackson and headed up the road to eat breakfast at a Cracker Barrel. We are going to miss these restaurants when we get home. We crossed into Alabama and noticed the country was a little more open than Mississippi, but still not a hill in sight. We do miss our mountains. One thing we noticed, instead of potato chips they had Salt and Vinegar Cracklins - only in the south. We ate really good bbq at a little restaurant in Selma. Went through Montgomery and, hate to say it, couldn't wait to get out. The downtown area is a ghetto and really run down. Shortly after that we crossed into Georgia at the Chatahoochie River. It actually seemed bigger than the Mississippi. We got as far as Albany, Georgia and decided to spend the night at a cute motel called "Merry Acres". It was originally built in the 1930's and some of it was quite quaint. The clerk in the motel had a brother who lived in Albany, Oregon and she had been to Newport several times. Once again, it is a small world.