Alabama is not just a long drive through pine forests, it has a Gulf Coast and a spectacular Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail considered the biggest golf construction project in the history of the game. All courses are within 15 miles of the state's interstate highway system and no more than a two hour drive from each other.

Drive through its back roads and find Civil War sites, monuments and abandoned general stores; vintage gas stations that are holdovers from previous times. The northern third of the state is in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains and the middle of the state consists of rolling hills and farmland. The southern end of the state is coastal plain and 275 miles of coastline.

The famous Olympic athlete, Jesse Owens is from Alabama along with 33 golf medalists, 8 from the 1996 Summer Olympics alone. Alabama is associated with some of the country's best known African American leaders including Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver and Martin Luther King Jr.

Anniston houses a unique collection of artwork from Toulouse-Lautrec and Renoirs to Remington and Zulu Asagai. Alabama's Shakespeare Festival is mid November in Montgomery. The World championship domino tournament is held in July in Andalusia. No visit to the state is complete without at least one mint julep and a taste of down home Southern cooking with grits and biscuits for breakfast.