Day 18
Albany, GA to Mobile, AL
approx. 333 miles
Route: From Albany, Highway 62 to Columbia, AL. Then Highway 52 to Dothan. Highway 84 to Fort Rucker. Highway 248 to Enterprise. Highway 84 to I-65, I-10 to Mobile.



On Highway 62 through the countryside. I followed this truck for about an hour, but since he was going plenty fast, I was content to stay behind him.

Highway 62 Highway 62 Highway 62



Blakely, a small one-horse town on Highway 62. But they did have two stoplights and a McDonalds!

Blakely Blakely Blakely

Blakely Blakely Blakely



Alabama Entering Alabama for the first time since 1975.



On Highway 52 through the Alabama countryside.

Highway 52 Highway 52 Highway 52



mural Mural on the side of a building in Dothan, Alabama. Looks like a typical day in Alabama to me!



signs Which highway did you say I should take???



pizza Gourmet Hot Dogs and Pizza?



I visited Fort Rucker where I was stationed for Air Traffic Control school in the Army, back in 1975.   It is the avaition training center for the Army.   They have built the U.S. Army Aviation Museum there which I wanted to see.   I could hardly recognize the fort.   It has changed so much since I was there.

They have an extensive collection, from World War I fixed-wing aircraft, and from the beginning of rotary-winged aircraft to today.

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Fort Rucker Fort Rucker Fort Rucker

Fort Rucker Fort Rucker Fort Rucker

Fort Rucker Fort Rucker Fort Rucker

Fort Rucker Fort Rucker Fort Rucker

Fort Rucker Fort Rucker Fort Rucker

Fort Rucker This is the type of equipment I received my training on.  It makes you feel old that something you used is displayed in a musuem!


Map, metal fence from the "Iron Curtain", and a section of the Berlin Wall.   "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
Fort Rucker Fort Rucker Fort Rucker



Enterprise, Alabama has a statue of a boll weavil in the middle of the street.   It seems strange to celebrate an agricultural pest, but it turned out to be one of those blessings in disguise sort of things.   The Boll Weevil destroyed the cotton industry which caused temporary hardship.   This forced the local farmers to "re-invent" themselves and diversify into other crops such as peanuts, which in the long-term, brought economic prosperity to the region.

Boll Weevil Boll Weevil Boll Weevil

Boll Weevil Boll Weevil Boll Weevil



Gas Another regional brand of gasoline



More scenery along the way

countryside countryside countryside



Crossing lakes and waterways north of Mobile

countryside countryside countryside



Motel 6 A great day of sight-seeing topped off with a night at the Motel 6


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