![]() ![]() Grandma Sands isn’t the big, mean-looking troll Kenny had imagined instead, she is teeny-tiny and looks like an older, shrunken version of Momma. Kenny is surprised to discover that the neighborhood looks a lot like Flint, only with Alabama's famous sun and heat. Soon enough, the Watsons arrive at Grandma Sands’ house in Birmingham, Alabama. Momma joins in on the fun and speaks "super-Southern style." It turns out that Dad has driven 18 hours straight! Dad jokingly explains that this required two kinds of mind power: focusing on the hum of the road and making vacuum sounds, which, according to an article he read, could lull someone to sleep. His beard is growing in and even more alarming, he is listening to country music on the radio! Dad jokes that he is changing his name to Clem, and he gives the rest of the family country names, too. As Kenny and Joey drift in and out of sleep, Dad keeps driving and smiling. When he wakes again, the sun is bright and Joey is also in the front seat, drooling all over him. ![]() Kenny briefly wakes and finds himself in the front seat, with Dad behind the wheel smiling, and "Yakety Yak" playing on repeat. ![]() Alabama Department of Archives and History. ![]()
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