It
turned out good for us to walk through downtown Auburn while the A-Day game was
being played and the final day of rolling the trees. And the rest of the story is it was not
planned. Our biggest concern was walking
through downtown with close to 200,000 people present and us with backpacks
on. We didn’t have any problems at
all. Our day of walking started at 9:10
a.m. from the State Forestry office where we ended the rainy day walk on
Friday. Pictures were made there before
we started walking. As we were walking
the major discussion was safety with all the traffic coming into town from I-85
onto Hiway 29 (College Street) and there is a picture made after crossing the
interstate and walking toward town. As
it turned out we crossed over to the sidewalk and it was no problem keeping the
pace. The worst walking took place later
in the day as we were walking out of Auburn on Highway 147 going toward Highway
280. It was two lane and a large amount
of traffic both ways. A rough 4 miles to
walk with no shoulder on the road forcing us to be back and forth off road to
rough terrain and back for smooth road.
This type walking generated some blister issues for David.
Pictures
along the way that you will see is Welcome to Auburn, me in front of Commons
where my daughter Bethany lived during her freshman year. Then the pictures from around the trees and
Toomers Corner.
Right
beside Toomers Corner is Avondale Bar and Tap Room, and David’s friend Jonathan
West that walked in the rain with us on Friday tends bar there. Since he was on duty we stopped in for a
visit and a pack-off break. Of course
that was a Kodak moment so there is a picture of us. While in Avondale we met some new friends and
visited with them during our break. We
met Seth and Malti Tuttle from Atlanta back in Auburn for the weekend (Malti’s
home town.) They were sharing with us
some adventure trips they have coming up and David and I are hoping to get
reports from them as well. A super nice
couple and they were gracious enough to have a picture made with us.
We
decided at this point to enjoy the fanfare on the street a little more and had
lunch at Five Guys. At this point the
A-Day game was being played with approximately 83,000 people in the stadium and
at least that many on College Street.
David had already stopped in J&M Bookstore to visit some friends and
then during lunch he saw more friends as well.
Pictures from here are included as well.
While having lunch a young lady (Julie Nolen) walked up that David had
worked with at the University. Pictured
in here somewhere is David with Julie and friends.
After
lunch we proceeded on walking out College Street onto Highway 147. We saw more friends of David’s from his
years living in Auburn. Also this route
carried us in front of “The Empire”,
David’s home in his early years at Auburn.
A picture of David with the new owners of the empire is also
included. The new owners are repairing
and renovating, David was appreciative of the restoration but I don’t think he
wants to move back to it!!
We
finally made it to our destination the end of the days walk logging 15
miles. Our stopping point was the Cowboy
Church on Hiway 280.
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