DAY FOUR WAS A SHORT, FUN, AND SPECIAL ONE!

Day 4 was a good day and we saw sunshine for the first time on the trip. It was wonderful, bright and warming.

We started on Crenshaw county road 77 south of Rutledge, and had a different plan of attack because we wanted to stop walking in time for a special side trip. We had walk thru Rutledge and stopped at the Hooks BarBQ place on Highway 10 and 331 taking a break and my son-in-law drove up. He was working in the area that day and found us, and delivered some home-made cookies that Bethany had made. We walked into Luverne and had lunch at Annie’s since our visit the night before had been so good to us.

We recalculated time and distance we could travel to complete the walk for the day in time to get back to Dry Creek and shower and change and drive to Montgomery to watch Michael play basketball (Huntingdon had a home game with Emory University). Michael had a good game personally but we lost the game. After the game David, Michael, and I went out to eat and visit. This was the first time David had ever gotten to see Michael play high school, or college. We met some real nice folks that had come down from New Jersey to watch their son play (for Emory) and spend the holidays with him. His name was Michael Friedberg.

We met a couple of new little friends in downtown Luverne as we were coming into town at lunch. We did have pictures made. All of our pictures will be posted at a later posting.

We finished this day walking a total of 16.3 miles with a week to date total covered for this leg at 66.8 miles.