C3Q II Daily Dispatches From The Road- 10/9/26

4  States: 37) Mississippi 38)Louisiana, 49) Alabama, 40) Georgia

Woke up an hour earlier than usual and left the hotel by 9:01. Since there was no breakfast, we ran to get something to eat and on route we spotted a “Dodges” drive thru mini mart gas station and decided to make that the first posting site. While Zoraya got the witness signatures, I began to clean the windshield while fueling up the Challenger. Then I proceeded to prep the target site by cleaning the surface and then spray-pasted the poster and placed it in between two Dodges signs, a big one and a little one, while the car was positioned in between both. Then we proceeded to get breakfast  while we re-routed our itinerary once again due to hurricane Isaiah path and its updated category 3 status. However , we had no choice but to continue south into the mouth of the monster and the belly of the beast in order to post in Alabama and Florida. 

A couple of hours later, we reached the Louisiana state line and immediately pulled off  on the first exit in search of a welcome center but as it sometimes happens, we accidentally discovered a historic site. We found a gravel path towards Grants Canal, a failed Civil War engineering project from 1862 and 1863 where Union forces tried to dig a channel across De Soto Point (or De Soto Peninsula) in Louisiana, directly across the Mississippi River from Vicksburg, Mississippi. However before even reaching the site, we found an interesting visual spot underneath the highway bridge on its concrete circular pillars and the welcome to Louisiana sign all in one frame. 

As soon as we entered the state of Alabama we stopped at the Welcome Center to once again reevaluate our itinerary because the margin of error was so small we could not afford to make a routing mistake if we wanted to break our own record. We made a decision and instead of going south, we decided to  go straight east through Alabama to reach Columbus, Georgia in order to avoid Mobile and the panhandle to avoid where the hurricane is to hit at 8 pm.  We were concerned that some highways and bridges were already closing with rerouting and there were  mandatory evacuations ordered by authorities. 

Just before Montgomery we stop at a Raceway gas station and minimart for our third and last posting of the day. Now it would just be pure driving  through stormy weather  even before Hurricane Isaiah makes landfall. Our goal is to reach Albany, Georgia by midnight and position ourselves to dip into Florida tomorrow morning before making our final ascent north towards home.