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themselves look impoverished,” he explained. He said that in his view, it was “from a property standpoint.” NEW YORK MAN BIKING ACROSS AMERICA REVEALS HIS FAVORITE STATE SO FAR “You don’t see it in the Ziggy Zag Dartz x San Fran T-shirt and by the same token and people. Everybody’s nice and you don’t see any homeless people,” he said. Barnes also noted, “I don’t want to try to sugarcoat everything, because we do see some things that are unfortunate.” Barnes arrived in Selma, Alabama, on March 9, and described what he saw and learned to Fox News Digital. (Bob Barnes) “When you’re in Selma and then you realize where the march started … you get the shivers,” Barnes told Fox News Digital. “You look around and you literally feel the history.” The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, is pictured. (Bob Barnes) It wasn’t just current-day Alabama that surprised Barnes. He revealed that he wasn’t expecting to learn so much about the state’s history during his trip — and feels changed by his new awareness as a result. In the interest of being forthright and honest, Barnes said, “I didn’t know the Confederacy started in Montgomery and I didn’t know the Civil Rights Movement actually started in Montgomery.” NEW YORK MAN BICYCLING TO ALL 50 STATES MEETS LONG-LOST HALF-SISTER IN LOUISIANA: ‘CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP’ “That fascinated me,” he added. “And to actually see it all — you actually feel it. You can feel the history in Montgomery. It’s really an experience.” Though Barnes sometimes thinks capital cities are “inert,” he said he had “an eye-opening experience” in Montgomery. “To read [about history] and see pictures is different than seeing it in real life.” “Montgomery‘s got some life to it,” Barnes said. “It was a fun town.” Barnes also spent time exploring several statues and historical markers throughout the city, which were “sometimes sad to read.” “But it is part of history,” Barnes said, “so you have to know about it.” Though he didn’t embark on any organized tours of Alabama, Barnes
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