re: Alabama is not so bad!

I haven't been to the North often but people seemed fine. I did get a weird look when I stopped for gas in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin one time though. I was on my way home from Yellowstone and took the northern route home. I don't know whether the guy staring at me was just a weird creep or that people in that part of the state just weren't used to seeing an Alabama (or Deep South state for that matter) license plate in Wisconsin. I doubt the Upper Midwest states get very many visitors from the South traveling by car so it may have been a novelty. Living near the beach here in Mobie it's obviously not unusual to see the reverse. There are thousands of cars from all over the Midwestern states traveling through here every weekend of the Spring and Summer on their way to Gulf Shores, Destin, and PCB.