A Float Down This Alabama River Is My Favorite Way To Spend A Summer Day

A Float Down This Alabama River Is My Favorite Way To Spend A Summer Day

Getty ImagesA couple years ago, I found myself without plans for Memorial Day. Everyone was headed to the lake or the beach for the holiday, and I was stuck in landlocked Birmingham without so much as a neighborhood pool to sit by. As a perennial planner, I was shocked at my negligence to come up with an activity for the long weekend, but it wouldn’t do to dwell. I needed to come up with something fun—and fast. I took to the internet with only a…