We probably didn’t start out today’s drive from Hammond on the planned route from last night, but eventually we did meet up with it towards the end somewhere as there aren’t that many ways to get there from southeast Louisiana. As it turned out, a bit of today’s route was a repeat of some of our Moss Motoring Challenge trip roads of 2014. We even ate lunch at the same spot we did a little over 9 years ago, Lea’s Lunchroom in LeCompte.
We did manage to get to one point of interest from Roadside America though. The small cemetery next to the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Moreauville had, among the usual above ground crypts and mausoleums, a tall black crucifix with an unusual plague at its base that reads “…disappeared Nov. 23, 1953, Intercepting a UFO over Canadian Border…”
Tonight’s stop is in Leesville, Louisiana just outside the gates of a large Army installation called Fort Polk which is named named after a Confederate general from the Civil War, Leonidas Polk. At least for the next week or two when it will be renamed Fort Johnson in honor of Sgt. William Henry Johnson, a North Carolina native who served in the Army during World War I and earned an African American Medal of Honor.
