Sheffield Trip

Bubba came by at 9:15 AM for our road trip to Sheffield. (of course it was a "road" trip, what else were we to drive on??). He drove his Miata but with the top on. It was a little too cool to have the top down.

We drove first to Sheffield and stopped by Sheffield High School to take a tour of the school. It was very interesting to see all the changes the school has made. It even has an elevator! Just for the teachers and special needs students. We went into the basement where the ROTC has classes. I didn't know the school had a basement. We got to meet and talk to some of the teachers and it was all very nice.

Then we drove three blocks down to our old home place. Just 1/2 of the grass out front was mowed for some reason. The people on the corner own the house and will some day have to have it torn down, it's getting in such bad shape. We drove on up the street to the Stand Pipe, a big water tank that sits on the bluff overlooking the Tennessee River. I took some pictures of the river and then we drove on to Tuscumbia. We doubled back to eat at the Southland, but they were in such bad shape that they didn't even have any white bread or bacon! We left there and went to Muscle Shoals and ate at Ruby Tuesdays. We had the salad bar and Bubba had a small steak. The salad bar filled me up.

We went to the Tuscumbia cemetery next. I took pictures of the family graves and we left to drive through what was downtown Muscle Shoals. It took us out to a road that went over the river on a new bridge that was near Wilson Dam. That road finally brought us back to Florence.

We were almost home and Bubba wanted to drive through Popular Point to look at a house he once owned. We found the house and finally found the road that would take us to our place.


We got home around a little after 3 PM. It was a nice trip and I guess we will do it again next year if everyone is still in good health.