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| Fort Benning to Fort Rucker |
May 17 2018
We departed FDR state park and meandered south to Columbus on rt 27/1. It
was a local road thru more of the Georgia countryside. Fort Benning
is in Columbus,
still an active training post; it is where I went to airborne jump school 50
years ago. I know it may sound crazy to some, but it was something I always
wanted to do. Even at that young age I had a bucket list, some things worked
out, some didn’t. That’s the way it is in life, but at least I got to jump out
of a perfectly good airplane!
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| Troops jumping from a Fairchild C-119 "Flying Boxcar" |
We did a quick skirt around the city and crossed the bridge
to Alabama.
Rt 431 runs down the eastern side of Alabama
and surprised us by being a wide four lane highway. The road only passes
through one fair sized town on its way south to Dothan Alabama.
Eufaula looked really sad with many closed businesses as we entered it from the
north, but we soon found it to be a charming southern town.
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| Eufaula Alabama |
About 20 miles north of Dothan we turned onto another set of
rural roads that took us on a shortcut to Ozark, our stopping spot for the next
few days. We selected the KOA campground here and were very pleased with it.
Paved sites, grass, full hookups and cable TV, you can’t ask for much more.
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