1,001 Novels Chapter Five: Blues & Bayous, Deltas and Coasts

 1,001 Novels Chapter Five: 

Blues & Bayous, Deltas and Coasts

Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida

   I'm running so far ahead on Audiobooks vs. Physical books that I thought it made sense to open up the next two chapters at the same time to take that into account.  Chapter five is distinctly the Southeast.  I'm surprised that Chapters Four and Five aren't reversed, since it makes sense to finish off the Atlantic United States before moving inland, which is what editor Susan Straight did.  I think that there is a strong argument for an alternative arrangements which would have gone from Chapter 2, New York/New Jersey to Chapter 3, Pennsylvania/Delaware/Maryland/DC instead of doing Delaware/Maryland/DC/Virginia /North Carolina/South Carolina.

  Besides stops at the Miami airport, brief trips to the Atlanta area to see family as a child and a post-graduation college road trip that saw a stop in New Orleans (where I got food poisoning and spent all night throwing up), I have no experiences with any of these states.  During visits to Nashville I've pondered a drive to northern Alabama, home of Muscle Shoals and NASA, but that is a tough sell.  Similarly I've thought about driving south from Nashville to Mississippi and non-New Orleans Louisiana but it doesn't seem likely to happen in my current lifetime. 

   Maybe this chapter will change my mind!