Start of day pictures at Jones Chapel Road on Hiway 31 north of Evergreen.
Pictures of preparation to load packs, starting point,Sepulga River, entering Butler County.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
DAY TWO - PICTURES - SUNDAY-11/22/09
Start of day pictures at Jones Chapel Road on Hiway 31 north of Evergreen.
Pictures of preparation to load packs, starting point,Sepulga River, entering Butler County.
DAY ONE - MORE PICTURES
More pictures here from Day one. One of the pictures on the bridge looks like I was walking in the wrong direction having met Pat and David. Glenn was walking behind us shooting pictures and I turned around to talk to him and was walking backwards when he made that shot.
There is also the two pictures that were made when getting dark. One was when we were nearing the end of the day, and one was posed at the end.
PICTURES - DAY ONE - SATURDAY - 11/21/09
A BIG THANKS TO GLENN BROOKS! Glenn met up with us at the start of the trip to make a few pictures as we prepared to leave and as we were walking. Glenn and Glenda as I had said earlier shuttled us for the first couple of days. After David and I had to shuttle our own rides later in the walk our appreciation for the shuttling that Glenn did and that Hugh Harris did in the first leg of our walk greatly increased.
The pictures in this post are:
We were expecting the rain to start anytime so I was spraying some waterproofing on my boots.
The walkers starting out with a picture at the start and our camping van.
Bye Ya'll as we hit the trail!
Headed north crossing the overhead bridge in downtown Evergreen.
Patsy joined her Mom and Brother for a short trek!
DAY SEVEN – SATURDAY – FINAL DAY OF LEG TWO
IT WAS A cold start for the walk this morning with the temp about 39 degrees and walking at 7:15 a.m. Thank goodness for a sunny bright morning. Before leaving Union Springs to go down to the starting point at Halls Crossroad, David met Mr. Joe Adams that knew David’s friend from Union Springs that interned with him in Washington D.C. during the college years. Mr Adams knew the family well enough to give David a good update on how they were all doing. After having some conversation with Mr. Adams, the owner of a pecan business, we traveled to the starting point.
Today was a short day but a great day for walking. David carried my pack today testing how his back would react to a full frame pack. Therefore, I had the relief of carry his day pack. The result at the end of the walk was I think he is ready to try a backpacking trip. The distance for today was 10.1 miles and completed a total of 117.1 miles on this second leg.
We passed a beautiful, old, and historical church this morning. Another great porch with steps to take our mid morning break on. The church was Sardis Baptist Church. We have a picture of the church and the historical marker.
Another interesting point of interest was downtown Union Springs. There is a monument in the middle of a downtown street of a dog for the “Bullock County members of the Field Trial Hall of Fame”.
We ended this leg of the walk about two blocks from the monument at the intersection where Hiway 29 North and Hiway 82 East separate. Subway on one corner and McDonalds on the opposite corner.
This is the point of beginning for Third Leg to be planned and announced at a later time.
Pictures will be posted in some kind of sequence following this post.
Thank you for keeping up with us and our walk. We greatly appreciate your contacting us as we walk. The calls, emails, and text were really an inspiration and really keep us focused and makes the walking easier. What about that Pat Bass and the mileage she packed? Way to go girl! Take time to post comments on our blog, we accept any comments, all are great and appreciated. Be sure to put any suggestions or ideas, and especially if there is any way that you would like to participate.
Thanks for everything and until we walk again, enjoy the pictures yet to be posted, and May God Bless You!
Today was a short day but a great day for walking. David carried my pack today testing how his back would react to a full frame pack. Therefore, I had the relief of carry his day pack. The result at the end of the walk was I think he is ready to try a backpacking trip. The distance for today was 10.1 miles and completed a total of 117.1 miles on this second leg.
We passed a beautiful, old, and historical church this morning. Another great porch with steps to take our mid morning break on. The church was Sardis Baptist Church. We have a picture of the church and the historical marker.
Another interesting point of interest was downtown Union Springs. There is a monument in the middle of a downtown street of a dog for the “Bullock County members of the Field Trial Hall of Fame”.
We ended this leg of the walk about two blocks from the monument at the intersection where Hiway 29 North and Hiway 82 East separate. Subway on one corner and McDonalds on the opposite corner.
This is the point of beginning for Third Leg to be planned and announced at a later time.
Pictures will be posted in some kind of sequence following this post.
Thank you for keeping up with us and our walk. We greatly appreciate your contacting us as we walk. The calls, emails, and text were really an inspiration and really keep us focused and makes the walking easier. What about that Pat Bass and the mileage she packed? Way to go girl! Take time to post comments on our blog, we accept any comments, all are great and appreciated. Be sure to put any suggestions or ideas, and especially if there is any way that you would like to participate.
Thanks for everything and until we walk again, enjoy the pictures yet to be posted, and May God Bless You!
DAY SIX – FRIDAY AFTER THANKSGIVING – IRON BOWL DAY
David and I met back up at Union Hill United Methodist Church shortly after 6:30 a.m. to get our vehicles repositioned for walking and pickup. Both of us had a great Thanksgiving Day with our families. We felt somewhat rested after a day off from walking and ready to go again, to see what was ahead around the next curve or over the next hill.
We started walking at 7:40 a.m. with the sun shining and the temp had gone up to a blazing 40 degrees. Our destination for the day was Halls Crossroad on Highway 223 south of Union Springs.
After starting at the Church on Highway 29 we opted to hop over on a railroad track and walk the track for a while. We walked the tracks for about 3 miles and we made our pictures while on the tracks. Rather fitting for David and I to walk some tracks, David’s Grandad, and my Dad both worked for the L&N Railroad out of Georgiana, AL.
We soon turned onto Highway 223 and the road started to climb and very soon it was apparent that we would be walking a ridge with great views on such a beautiful clear day. Not too far up 223 we met and made a new friend. Mark Green was walking around a house that was being constructed on a high ridge with a beautiful view. We introduced ourselves to Mark and started a conversation. He shared his brother was building the house and his parent’s lived across the highway down a county road. We had a great conversation with Mark, had prayer right there on the hilltop, invited him to walk some with us and moved on. He was interested in possibly joining us to walk, and we thought he might, but I think the Iron Bowl kept him home.
We found a church with the sun shining bright on the porch and steps, so that made a warm wonderful place to sit down in the warmth and eat lunch. I think it was Zebulon Baptist Church.
It didn’t take long to determine that Highway 223 was busy with Chicken Trucks. We learned that Wayne Farms had a chicken processing plant in Union Springs, and most of the chicken farms were to the south. The chicken trucks were making turn hauls like the log trucks had done earlier on 106 & 77. Therefore, we saw several trucks and drivers multiple times. The waves were back and forth like we were old-time friends.
Just before leaving Pike County we crossed the upper end of the Conecuh River. A few hundred yards before crossing the bridge in the swamp we heard something in the trees and looked up to see two raccoons playing around up high in a tree.
We arrived at the Bullock County line and were getting pictures made when calls and text started coming in about “The Game”. David and I thought it was a 3:30 kickoff so we did not have our little radio on yet. There was a house right on the county line and the sign was in front of it. We made some new friends here as well, it was four cousins. Another neighbor came out and made a picture for us so we could have all four cousins in the pic. So we then walked on having turned the radio on and the game was so good and exciting that our pace picked up.
We ended the walk on this day at Halls Crossroad having traveled 21.3 miles. We opted at this point to drive on into Union Springs and find a restaurant and watch the last quarter of the game. “Los Portales” was the winner and turned out to be our friends for the night.
We ate and watched the end of the game and then shuttled vehicles and measured our walk for Saturday. We determined that we would camp in the parking lot at the First Baptist Church. Therefore, we had no electricity so we went back and hung out at “Los Portales” until closing time which became bed time in the parking lot.
We started walking at 7:40 a.m. with the sun shining and the temp had gone up to a blazing 40 degrees. Our destination for the day was Halls Crossroad on Highway 223 south of Union Springs.
After starting at the Church on Highway 29 we opted to hop over on a railroad track and walk the track for a while. We walked the tracks for about 3 miles and we made our pictures while on the tracks. Rather fitting for David and I to walk some tracks, David’s Grandad, and my Dad both worked for the L&N Railroad out of Georgiana, AL.
We soon turned onto Highway 223 and the road started to climb and very soon it was apparent that we would be walking a ridge with great views on such a beautiful clear day. Not too far up 223 we met and made a new friend. Mark Green was walking around a house that was being constructed on a high ridge with a beautiful view. We introduced ourselves to Mark and started a conversation. He shared his brother was building the house and his parent’s lived across the highway down a county road. We had a great conversation with Mark, had prayer right there on the hilltop, invited him to walk some with us and moved on. He was interested in possibly joining us to walk, and we thought he might, but I think the Iron Bowl kept him home.
We found a church with the sun shining bright on the porch and steps, so that made a warm wonderful place to sit down in the warmth and eat lunch. I think it was Zebulon Baptist Church.
It didn’t take long to determine that Highway 223 was busy with Chicken Trucks. We learned that Wayne Farms had a chicken processing plant in Union Springs, and most of the chicken farms were to the south. The chicken trucks were making turn hauls like the log trucks had done earlier on 106 & 77. Therefore, we saw several trucks and drivers multiple times. The waves were back and forth like we were old-time friends.
Just before leaving Pike County we crossed the upper end of the Conecuh River. A few hundred yards before crossing the bridge in the swamp we heard something in the trees and looked up to see two raccoons playing around up high in a tree.
We arrived at the Bullock County line and were getting pictures made when calls and text started coming in about “The Game”. David and I thought it was a 3:30 kickoff so we did not have our little radio on yet. There was a house right on the county line and the sign was in front of it. We made some new friends here as well, it was four cousins. Another neighbor came out and made a picture for us so we could have all four cousins in the pic. So we then walked on having turned the radio on and the game was so good and exciting that our pace picked up.
We ended the walk on this day at Halls Crossroad having traveled 21.3 miles. We opted at this point to drive on into Union Springs and find a restaurant and watch the last quarter of the game. “Los Portales” was the winner and turned out to be our friends for the night.
We ate and watched the end of the game and then shuttled vehicles and measured our walk for Saturday. We determined that we would camp in the parking lot at the First Baptist Church. Therefore, we had no electricity so we went back and hung out at “Los Portales” until closing time which became bed time in the parking lot.
Monday, November 30, 2009
THANKSGIVING DAY
This day was taken off from walking and spent enjoying time with our family.
WE DO HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE AND TO CHALLENGE YOU WITH!
DAVID HAS A FRIEND THAT HAS COMMITTED TO MATCH DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR ALL THE CONTRIBUTIONS THAT WE RAISE FOR "GRACE PLACE" THROUGH "WALK UP ALABAMA".
OPEN YOUR HEARTS AND POCKETBOOKS TO HELP "GRACE PLACE".
READ THE REASON FOR WALK IN RIGHT MARGIN TO SEE HOW YOU CAN MAKE A CONTRIBUTION.
WE DO HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE AND TO CHALLENGE YOU WITH!
DAVID HAS A FRIEND THAT HAS COMMITTED TO MATCH DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR ALL THE CONTRIBUTIONS THAT WE RAISE FOR "GRACE PLACE" THROUGH "WALK UP ALABAMA".
OPEN YOUR HEARTS AND POCKETBOOKS TO HELP "GRACE PLACE".
READ THE REASON FOR WALK IN RIGHT MARGIN TO SEE HOW YOU CAN MAKE A CONTRIBUTION.
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