THURSDAY - APRIL 18, 2013

David actually arrived in Auburn on Wednesday night and Thursday morning he scouted out the route we had chosen north of Auburn.  David’s friend Kenneth Chance had scouted the route from Union Springs to Auburn and reported to us in detail by mile markers the different landscapes and structures we would pass.  I met David at the ending point for a 10.3 afternoon walk at lunch time.  We then drove to Union Springs to eat lunch and then officially start walking.  Leaving David’s car at Subway where we ate and to start the walk, we began walking at 12:45 p.m. 

Of course, walking from Union Springs toward Tuskegee, there was much distance that matched the term “middle of nowhere!” giving us plenty of time to catch up with all we had going on.  It had been many months since we had the opportunity to visit.

We were very appreciative of the scouting that Ken had done for us, however, we did tease him with a hard time.  He had on the scouting report that about 6 miles in there was a store at Ft. Davis.  He just failed to tell us it closed in 1960!  Since there was no ice cold drink at the store, we took our pack-off break at the cover of the Post Office.  A picture of the depot and the post office is on another post.

Upon completion of the afternoon walk arriving at the van, we drove back to Union Springs to get David’s car. Then we drove the route for Friday checking mileages as we drove to Base Camp at Chewacla State Park.  We had some folks that wanted to walk on Friday at different times so we were checking to see mileages for them to leave a vehicle and most important was where to eat lunch on Friday and what was the mileage to that point.

We made our way to Chewacla and set up a base camp.  In another post we shared about watching Jason and Stephen play Ultimate Frisbee.  However on this post is a picture of  the Bass men at the intramural field.