Courtyard By Marriott Pensacola Downtown

Pensacola... the show was good, the hotel was horrible.<br><br>For the record, Pensacola does not count as Florida. The panhandle is not Florida. I know Florida. Pensacola is Alabama light. <br><br>I couldn't even find a Publix nearby!<br><br>On to New Orleans!!!!! <br><br>:)<br>

De camino hacia New Orleans, paramos a visitar dos Parques Nacionales, el Big Lagoon, uno de los mejores parques en la costa de los USA, y el Tarkiln Bayou Park, caracterizado por las raras especies de plantas como algunas carnivoras.<br><br> On the way to New Orleans, we stopped to visit two national parks, Big Lagoon, one of the best parks on the coast of the USA, and Tarkiln Bayou Park, featuring the rare species of plants and some carnivores.<br>

... roasted red peppers and artichoke hearts and mozzarella cheese. Delicious! And for the main course mushroom and chicken pasta. Mhm....slept in a bed and it was wonderful. Torrential downpour the next morning. But clear skies after that on our way to Louisiana!!!

... since my inclination is to go faster than I should, so i pulled off and got a room. at 200pm local time. Today is my day off I guess. I will try again tomorrow. If its still bad weather i'm outta here and heading to SC. Oh, i gotta say after 700 odd miles with the cramp buster, i'm sold on that thing! It makes a huge difference! my hand still hurts but mostly from the previous days' ride.<br><br>see ya on the road tomorrow, hopefully.<br><br>RAH<br><br> <br> <br>

... touching your "undergarments". Anyway it was a nice gesture and i have all clean stuff now.<br><br>So this morning my uncle made the bombest waffles ever! Then we went to his friends house in town, the guy is a serious BMW freak, has about 11 machines in garages and two or three other makes as well. Here are some pics. Anyway we talked with BMW guy for an hour, he was a wealth of knowledge and said I didnt need to visit a mechanic ...

... kicked up from the seabed. Some of these little guys were so eager they just didn&#8217;t get out of the way in time and were accidentally booted away by us,....and thus &#8220;Fish Kicking&#8221; was invented. PETA have tracked us down and are trying to stop people walking in the sea.......ever. PETA are ****** off. Trace, having the spirit of a three year old trapped inside her, referred to the fish scraping against our feet and legs as &#8220;Fish Tickles&#8221;. I put ...

Leeroy experienced a road trip U.S.A style 6:30am straight to the coach with a stop at Pensacola beach nice white sands e.t.c. for lunch &amp; Avo...too bad there was a thunder storm warning so beach was closed for the afternoon so ended up a 8 hour straight drive.. the seas were angry that day my friends.

I met my good friend Mark in Gulf Shores to mark the bookend of my trip. We had a great time with his family doing the normal Gulf Shores things like lots of fishing, talking and whatnot. I did get a few pictures here, but at this ...

The plan is to hit a few museums. In Gernier, the Indian Temple Mound and Museum, along with the old school house and The National Museum of Naval Aviation. Well, we stumbled across a few more. The Heritage Museum of Northwest Florida and The US Air Force Armament Museum on the Elgin Air Force Base ...

... bar, etc,. Also, spend some time on the boardwalk at the intersections of Pensacola Beach Blvd, Fort Pickens Rd, and Via de Luna Dr. And drive down the Via de Luna Dr. to see some pretty funky architecture. They've got to be built to withstand hurricane winds and high storm surges so the designs are unlike anything you'll see in the rest of the U.S.