No walking yesterday but we did attend the First Presbyterian Church of Eufaula, Alabama. The church is very old and impressive looking. The church was established in 1836 and the present building was built in 1869 "in the style of a English parish church", according to the historical marker in front.
Today, Carol took us out to mile marker 10 and John and I started walking. After about 5 miles, we came to mile marker 0. This is very strange, what's going on? It should be mile marker 15. John surmised that we had walked into another county and the markers revert back to 0. When we come to another county line, we will see if his hypothesis is correct.
We are walking in rolling hills, with tree farms and an occasional pasture. Highway 82 here is 2 lane, but the traffic is light and we are walking on new asphalt. Pretty good walking.
We walked through the small towns of Morris and Springvale. Carol met us at mile marker 7. Tomorrow we walk through Cuthbert.
After the walk, we had chili dogs for lunch. Carol and I cleaned up and drove into Eufaula. We wanted to tour the Shorter Mansion. Eufaula has dozens of spectacular old home and this particular home was purchased from the Shorter family in 1965 by the Eufaula Heritage Assn. It reminded me of the White House in Washington D.C. We met our tour guide, Glenda, at the door. She asked us if we were from Eufaula and we told her that we were from Hot Springs, Arkansas and we also told her about the walk. She was very impressed and introduced us to the other staff members. Glenda was very friendly and nice and is a great asset to the Shorter Mansion.
Today we found a bungee cord and .01 cent. Stay tuned ...
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