La Quinta Inn And Suites Panama City

We will post trip information here as soon as it starts. For 2010, we will continue planning the project and look for Sponsors that are willing to invest and support the Project. All indications in that regard is ...

... a spot on the sand away from the kiddies and mullets...pretty good time. <br><br>Had a dolphin swim within 15 feet of me, probably due to our perfected dolphin and mermaid calls (I had nothing on Brad and Kat´s--but it worked). <br><br>We had no idea what we were getting into. <br><br>But this seems to be the only place on earth that serves Busch Beer in bottles--worth the price of admission. <br><br><br>

... windshield wipes at Advance Auto.We arrived at St. George Inn around 5 PM or so.  The Inn is an old house.  I had reserved the Windjammer "Suite"--it was actually a regular room, with a King bed.  It was like staying at a relative's house, only you had to pay. The bed creaked and was uncomfortable; the toilet ran if you didn't jiggle the handle; the TV was very small and was up on a stand on the wall.  But it was OK for one night.We took a walk on the ...

... building retaining walls and reinforcing shoulders that must have been damaged during last year's hurricanes. Many of the houses in this area are set 12-15 feet above ground level, suggesting that storm surges must be quite high at times. The water seems quite shallow with sand in evidence far out from the shore. When we rounded the point of land at Port St. Joe and headed ...

... I got to watch all of the spring breaker kids playing in the parking lot. Footballs were being passed back and forth (with the occasional miss and "whomp" into the hood of a parked car), a bottle of vodka was being chugged by one very badly sunburned dude, cases upon cases of beer were being loaded into mini-vans and my favorite... a skateboarder that ran into (totally unhurt) the Bud Lite promotional Humvee. Thursday March 13th. Kayaked over to the ...

... the boat and sailing it to the pier at the condo. Then it's a calm fishing day. Except, the first boat's motor catches on fire, out in the water. The only replacement is a pontoon, which isn't the best for casting. But nothing stops dedicated fishermen/women. There's enough fish for dinner! No suprise.

... to fish. Lew gave me my first rod...a Wright & McGill. And he tried to teach me how to cast. At the age of 6 I was practicing in his yard. I think my brother Skip was hooked at birth. My younger brother Scott also became addicted. So addicted that he now lives on a trout stream, the Sinnemahoning Creek in Driftwood, PA. Skip taught ...

... so he bought it and drove it back to PJ's. We took almost another month to install, change, add-on or do whatever else was needed to suit our needs. PJ's son Billy came down from Indiana for a visit and he did a lot of the work, like installing all the satellite, TV, and electrical stuff. It's a 35' Tiffin Allegro Bus (3 feet shorter than the Dynasty) and has less storage room, however ...

When we left Brownsville, we headed back east to Perry, GA for a big FMCA RV Rally. Along the way, we connected with our friends Bev and Wynn in Styx River for a couple of days. The FMCA rally was very good and had a lot of worthwhile information and entertainment. After the rally, we worked our way back to our friend PJ's 'farm' in Vernon, FL just north of Panama City in the Florida Panhandle. PJ had bought a reservations service from me, on the island of Maui, several years ago ...

After a pleasant week on the Gulf Shore, we headed for Florida. Then a few miles later, just after we crossed the border into Florida, we barely escaped having a bad accident with a cement truck! We don't know if the truck driver dropped something, or what, but he crossed about 5'-6' over the double yellow line into our lane right in front of us! Terry leaned on the horn and pulled over as far to the right as he could (it was a narrow road with no shoulder due to ...