They took a shuttle to Alabama. Even though she was frightened out of her mind, and her stomach acted up again, she couldn't help but appreciate the comfort of traveling via alien space shuttle. It was so much nicer than going down in a rickety bus that kept breaking down. She'd counted the breakdowns and fourteen times in one trip was the record. Her grandmother said that her grandmother had told her of a time when people would fly between states. These days only the very rich flew in planes. Madison remembered their whole county once going to look at an airplane that landed on a private estate.