July 28.
We started the day with another police escort! We went the same direction as the night before–we had an escort from Tuskegee Institute to somewhere on the edge of town. They took care of us all the way through town! That was a great welcome. It was also good practice for our police escort the next day into Americus, GA. We didn’t get nearly as spread out as the night before. When you’re in front with a police escort, it’s quite tempting to try to keep up. If the ones in front try to keep up and are able to do so, then the ones who can’t go as fast get further and further back.
Apparently the main occurrence this day was crossing the Georgia state line–at least according to the photos I took.
Shortly after we crossed the Georgia line we passed a canyon. We thought we were going to be able to drive back to see the actual canyon according to what Henry had said in the morning. We passed it by and didn’t go out to the viewpoint. Unfortunately, we were mistaken. I saw a couple of people’s pictures of the canyon, and a sign to the canyon, but I did not see the actual canyon. Too bad!
In Lumpkin, we were greeted by Miss Jean, who used to be a school principal. She is part of the Fuller Center there in Lumpkin, though I arrived too late to find out much about what she did. She took excellent care of us and then took us out to dinner at a catfish restaurant. It appeared to be one of the few businesses still open. We had a good dinner and went back to the church to sleep. Miss Jean also came in the morning to see us off.