Crimson Tide

MONTGOMERY, AL-April 17 Today we had a short drive down to Montgomery, only about 90 miles compared to the 400 or 500 that seems to be routine during this trip. I was a little frustrated to be leaving another interesting city so soon. Birmingham was beautiful and the weather perfect (our sales manager Arnold described it as "California weather). I would have like to have spent a little more time here.

Lunch in Montgomery was a buffet with a lot of flavorful fare. As with so many of the restaurants where we have eat

We thought we had another winemaker dinner tonight, but we were relieved to hear that was not the case. That took tremendous pressure off us as we needed to be in Jacksonville, FL the following morning. So right after lunch, we hit the road. For the first time since our first long day when we left Fresno at 3 p.m. and headed to Phoenix, the long drive was really wearing on me. Listening to "The Old Man and the Sea" helped pass the time, but I was still really ready to get out of the car at 10 that night. Fortunately, we had made it all the way to Jacksonville, so we could have a relaxing morning instead of having to hit the road at the crack of dawn as we have been doing.