Best Cheesy Muffins in Alabama

Road tripping through Alabama was quite an eventful experience. My sister and I had come from Chicago, Illinois to St Louis, Missouri to Memphis, Tennessee to Oxford and Tupelo, Mississippi to make it here and then continue toward Miami, Florida.

We were extremely excited about putting our history knowledge to the test and connecting our grade school history lessons to the present day history.

Our first stop was the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame.

Where Heroes Live Forever

The Alabama Sports Hall of Fame Museum is in the Uptown District of Birmingham and opened in 1992. It’s home to 6,000+ pieces of sports memorabilia and is one of the largest sports halls of fame in the nation. The display dates back to 1969!

Couldn’t leave Alabama without seeing some art at the Birmingham Museum of Art. Right?!

They were extremely covid friendly, all the few people there were spaced out and it was extremely sanitized.

They had some stellar exhibitions. We walked around the whole museum and really got to experience Birmingham’s story.

The next adventure lead us to Railroad Park. The great but freezing outdoors! It was absolutely stunning with the fall colored leaves, which I’m surprised they were naked since it was winter in December.

On the street looking into the park, it had a huge road with yellow letters reading “Black Lives Matter.” I had never seen one of these signs up close. So it was neat.

We wouldn’t be real foodies if we didn’t go to Jim’n Nick’s bar-b-q!

The food was SO yummy! We even had seasonal beer, so you know we had the full experience. I think this has to be one of my favorite food stops because let me tell you something…

THE CHEESY MUFFINS ARE A MUST, 10000%

We did some exploring and photo-taking ourselves. Definitely improvised at the Riverfront Park with placing the phone on the steps and self-timer-ing it! The riverside was absolutely beautiful!

The masks also helped our cold weather situation by warming our faces up. So we made the most of it!

A few highlights of our road trip: Alabama State Capitol and the Dexter King Memorial Baptist Church. Although we couldn’t do a tour due to the pandemic, we drove by it and tried to admire it as much as we could.

Up next: First White House of the Confederacy and the Civil Rights Memorial. We truly appreciated that each landmark had a sign with a story. It was interesting to walk through history and visualize what was back then.

The woman who changed history

One of my favorite spots was the Rosa Parks bus stop. We originally parked by the fountain and around it were painted silhouettes of the Black Lives Matter movement that recently occurred. We also stopped at the Rosa Parks statue and a local came out of nowhere and provided us some history about him and Rosa.

It was really nice of him to provide so much history, especially to the spots we wanted to explore to visualize the story in its location.

He used to be a homeless man, who now advocates for the homeless.

Because most areas were closed, we were grateful for what was open for sure! We stopped by The National Memorial for Peace and Justice and I almost cried listening to the stories. When you enter the free museum, there’s a theatre with ongoing stories of history.

It opened to the public in April 2018. It’s “the nation’s first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved Black people, people terrorized by lynching, African Americans humiliated by racial segregation and Jim Crow, and people of color burdened with contemporary presumptions of guilt and police violence.” This is their site.

I couldn’t take images of the outdoor portion, but it was very impactful to see the statues of slaves and bars of states with names of those who have died from lynching.

Definitely a stop I’d recommend anyone to come to.

Before we head out to go home, we stopped for some local coffee at Vintage Cafe. It’s a two-story coffee shop and very clean! Everyone wore their masks and were extremely welcoming.

I absolutely loved this sister road trip. We learned so much about our history in all categories from each state that we visited. There’s so much more we definitely have to come do though!

While I’ll miss the fall colored trees, I definitely loved Alabama and all it had to offer. I would also want to come post Covid because most of what we wanted to see was closed.

Until the next adventure!

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