Our plan was to just hitch-hike the few hour drive to Birmingham, AL and the cut over to Jackson, Mississippi. This may have been one of the worst decisions we've ever made.
Although our trip started of well with a ride from a local skateboard shop owner named andrew and 15dollars, the next man that gave us a ride should have told us of the dangers of what we were about to encounter. Soon after getting in the car with Mister D he told us that we were lucky we weren't N*****s, because he wouldn't have picked us up if we had been. And since then, the one rule so far on this trip is, that even if we must get out in the middle of nowhere, neither Marcus nor I will stand for such a thing.
The next ride was from a wonderful 40 year old named Stephanie who said she would take us most of the way, but lived a ways of the interstate, so she would drop us off at the nearest town. Turns out the towns name was Cullmann and we never should have gotten out.
Three most memorable quotes from Cullmann:
"We don't go to Birmingham. There's Brown People, Drugs, And Violence."
"This is where the KKK was started."
"Well what do you want to know about this place? The cops are terrible, the people are worse. This place is G-d-forsaken."
