Days Inn Pensacola Historic 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>

Well, Liz, Cathy and TJ had the margaritas. I stuck with Sprite for this one. TJ caught a few waves at the beach even though there was hardly anything to catch. Then we went back to Liz's where Cathy took control as chef. She and Liz made this awesome bruschetta ...

not good news to report today. I left pensacola FL this morning bound for Miami. Fate had another plan in store...5 or six miles east on I-10 traffic stopped cold. Uuugh...i hate that. Stop and go traffic and no lane splitting makes me cranky. Each time i have to stop theres a high chance of me losing my balance and falling over. The next thing that happened was the state troopers directed everyone off at SR 90, which parallels I-10 but goes thru the little towns and has ...

... a pesky fork-seal leak Id noticed the day before. We started talking about throttle-locks, to keep my hand from falling off by the end of the day. He ended up giving me, for FREE, a little paddle shaped piece of plastic called a cramp buster. It slips on the right hand grip and you just lay your palm on it instead of having to twist the grip all day long. Oh....my....gosh. this thing is a miracle! I rode about 650 miles today ...

... down to over-excitement and/or sun-stroke.<br><br>I had a brief but satisfactory moment of Zen a couple of days ago. Trace and I were flip-flopping around in the water and I started messing about making &#8220;eeek eeek&#8221; sounds. Trace looked at me sternly and said &#8220;What the hell are you doing?&#8221; to which I replied &#8220;Calling the dolphins.&#8221; Not a word of a lie, as Trace said &#8220;You&#8217;re an idiot&#8221;, about two hundred meters away an all ...

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 was still pretty exhausted and didn't have my head in the game the way I should have. I am sure that I will learn to stay closer to my camera in future ventures so I don't lose the memories of what makes all this travel so great.<br>

... was nothing I had not seen before, but, if you ever travel through Mobile, you should stop to see the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park. I ended up in Pensacola, Florida where I will stay the night and go on to Orlando to visit friends and one of my brothers that lives nearby.

Well,here it goes.I'm back tracking a little being as I started to write about all this stuff in retrospect.The start of my traveling.Official traveling on my own that is. Aside from the vacations with the Family.And the stuff that happened oh so long ago I can hardly remember.I joined the Navy in DEC 04,finished basic, and off to Florida.It was quite interesting.I arrived months after hurricane IVAN ...