Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Gulf Shores

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>

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 ...

... 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 ...

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.

<br>5 pm<br><br>Well, old jenny davis wasn't working.  Too bad for us.  <br><br>Anyway, I'm driving with my dad from the Flora-bama bar to Pensacola where we're staying tonight and I'm trying to figure out why. Why are all these brand new condos here? We have to know that someday a storm like Catrina ...

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 ...

... AND CORN ON THE COBB (HMMM, SO DELICIOUS!). I REALLY AM SPOILED AND EVERYONE INDULGED ME. YEARS OF COOKING; A VACATION FOR ME IS NOT TO COOK...SO FOR ME, IT WAS A WONDERFUL TRIP!. WE COULD NOT HAVE ASKED FOR A BETTER LITTLE ONE. SHE REALLY IS A SWEET HEART. SHE REALLY SEEMED TO ENJOY HERSELF. SHE DEFINITELY DID SOAK UP ALL THE ONE ON ONE ATTENTION FROM EACH ONE OF US. OH ...

(50)JULY 27, 2009<br>We decided to go back to the beach early. Invited Son and family to go. They took us up on<br>it. They will be going to school and our son will be in training as he is a rookie firefighter. So, it will be lots of learning and commitment for them when they get back. We could not get a bigger condo at this late a date. So, we decided to make do and make memories. The weather ...

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