He said: "Well, America was different back then. First of all, there weren't so many cars, and there weren't so many highways and it was a long way between here and Texas. And the cars didn't have A.C., so when it was hot, all you could do was open the windows and Mom's hair would get messed up then. There weren't any seat belts and our parents didn't think anything of sticking the kids in the back of the station wagon to play, until we got too loud or someone started a fight. It took 5 whole days to get there, then 5 whole days to get back. We slept in motel rooms along the way and Dad pulled into one only when it got too dark to see. We ate soggy sandwiches that Mom somehow made and we just watched the South roll by us, state by state. There was still cotton in the South then and there was still mostly black folk to pick it. It seems now like another planet, and in many ways it was."

Stumble It!