Cleanliness

Hello, my name is Bethany, and it's been 6 days since my last shower...

Since we've stumbled across lakes or public fountains every day since our departure, we've been (relatively) clean. But there comes a bursting point where lake water just don't get you clean no more.

We are currently (as I 'after the fact' write) in Lake Lurleen State Park, outside Birmingham, Alabama (Bama Nation!). It's the morning after and enough is enough. I wind my way to the bathhouse, which is suprisingly clean and modern and took my first real shower in almost a week. It was glorious!

The one downside: My tan, my lovely, gloriously glowing tan that had developed in just the last week--turns out, it wasn't really a tan. It was dirt.

Leaving the bathhouse--I was sweating inside the building because my one shower (though only an environmentally friendl-ish 10 minutes) had made the poorly ventilated bathhouse steamy and overly-heated. I left the bathhouse quickly but almost instantly wanted to retreat back inside because outside was even worse than in--and it was only 9 am!

Current music for visiting Alabama: (which I actually heard on the radio coming here!) Home Sweet Alabama by the Charlie Daniels Band...anybody know if there's an apostrophe in the name?