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| Who are YOU gonna call? |
After leaving the Big Easy we drove through the deep south to get to Fort Benning, which is in Georgia just across the Alabama border. We drove all day, finally making it to Fort Benning around 10 o’clock local time, which was Eastern Standard! Even though it’s never fun to lose an hour to time change, it felt great to finally be back on EST. We met our good high school friend Greg just off base and spent the evening hanging out with him and some of his West Point friends at a local watering hole, where there was live music that could not be described as anything other than “death metal.” It was quite a scene.
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| Infantry Museum |
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| US National Infantry Museum |
The next day Greg took us on base to see the National Infantry Museum which was very cool. They had some really excellent exhibits and it was good to have a real infantryman as our guide. We stayed at the museum until it closed, at which point we had to put together some plans for Halloween, which we'd be celebrating that night. We decided to make the drive to Auburn University about an hour away in Alabama, which meant that we had to find some good costumes for the evening.
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| Don't worry, we're scientists. |
After hunting around a Halloween store, we found our costumes: three GhostBusters jumpsuits complete with inflatable positron nuclear reactors for taking care of any paranormal activity we might encounter. At Auburn we were very excited to see that there was a costume contest, and that the best costume would receive a $1000 prize. We thought our main competition would be from some of Greg’s buddies who came with us and dressed in ridiculous 80s hair-band attire, complete with wigs and leggings. Other than these guys the only other costume we were worried about was a group of guys dressed as the Chilean Miners, but we figured that was too not PC to win. Unfortunately, we all lost the contest, proving that it must have been rigged (Avatar won? Really?).
After our disappointing loss we headed out for some grub and to crash for the night at our hotel. The next day we drove back to Benning and spent the day lounging around Greg’s apartment, watching football and movies. After a dinner of old fashioned country cooking at a place called Gus’s Drive-In, we called it a night since Greg had to be up early for training and we had to hit the road. The next morning we packed our stuff, said goodbye, and hit the road for Atlanta, GA.
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