DAY THREE IS DONE AND BOOKED!

Day 3 was a wonderful day, except for leaving my PB&J Sandwiches in the refrigerator at home, and we were in an area with Little or NO cell service. We received emails and text and couldn’t get replies to go out. We would get notification of a voice mail and couldn’t get to voice mail or the call would drop while listening to message.
Day 3 had us starting at the closing point of Sunday evening which was in front of a high school classmate of mine, Richard Skipper. This was just a very few miles out of Georgiana, AL on State Highway 106 and we walked to about halfway up Crenshaw County Road 77 just south of Rutledge, AL a total of 19.9 miles.

I must tell a funny that occurred today. We were crossing Persimmon Creek and I normally carry my hiking stick in my right hand. I had shifted it to my left hand and while walking on the bridge it went into one of the drain holes and simultaneously my left hand lightened the grip and it slipped out and zip to the ground (thank goodness ground and not creek) below it went. I told Pat and David to hold on I had to go get my favorite stick. Reason being it is my favorite hiking stick. Cathy’s Grandfather and I Picked out and cut that stick in 1970 and it has been my favorite and on untold numbers of backpacking trips. I retrieved it with no problem and will post a picture of it before long so you can see the carvings representing nights on the trail while backpacking.

We stopped at Mrs. Smith’s store. It is owned and operated by Cathy Smith and we had a great rest break there. Cathy is married to “Duck Smith” that is younger than me and went to Georgiana High School. While at the store we met Wendell and Faye Powell, my high school classmate “Larry Powell’s Uncle and Aunt. Mary Elizabeth Wood came to the store to visit us and an acquaintance, Connie Till, stopped by and took our picture for us. We also received a contribution for “Grace Place” while there.

Today was Monday and it was still a rainy, cloudy, gloomy, cold day but we still found God’s beauty had a great walking day covering 19.9 miles today.

Cathy’s and David’s cousin Joe Lewis Wood and his wife Yvonne (Von) lives one mile off the route we were walking and that is where Pat (David’s Mom) ended her walk. Congratulations Pat!! She walked 29 and ½ miles over the 3 days, what a trooper and so much fun to have her along.

Joe picked us up on our route and carried us all to his house where Von had lunch prepared for us. Delicious, and a lunch saving for me with my PB&J in refrigerator at home.

David and I continued on to complete the day in Crenshaw County about half way up county highway 77.

After completing the day we starting measuring our route for Tuesday and measured to downtown Luverne, AL knowing we wanted to go farther than that. However, we had to find a place to camp. We went to the little restaurant named “Annie’s” to eat and see if we could get a lead for a place to stay. Some hunters told us about a campground named “Dry Creek” just a few miles south of town toward Brantley. David saw a couple having dinner and walked over to speak and share our adventures with them. They were Mr. and Mrs. David Coggins, the owners of Dry Creek Campground and they invited us to camp Monday and Tuesday night with shower facilities and the works at NO cost. How nice of them to do this and we learned they are really super people. Then at the campground we met David Coggins’ parents Mr. and Mrs. Percy Coggins. Wonderful, sweet, and kind people.

We turned in for a good night’s sleep with no internet coverage to update the blog.

Day 3 was a Great Day.