When I was 19, I spent the summer working in Yellowstone National Park with my friend (and fellow Alexander City native) Jim Bankston. Jim graduated from Benjamin Russell High School one week, and we drove across the country the next.
It took us three days, and our only guide was a Rand McNally Road Atlas that was about 100 pages long. It was spiral bound, so when we flopped it open, it had two pages per state. We thought we were informed enough for a cross-country jaunt. This was way, way before the internet obviously. We had heard of SkyNet from The Terminator movie, but beyond that, computers weren’t a factor. We didn’t even have cell phones.
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