Quality Inn North Pensacola

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!!!

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 ...

... couldn&#8217;t get up to much......no bones or muscle structure you see, makes it hard to water-ski or bowl.<br><br> A factoid : An American Battleship was sunk off the coast of Pensacola to create a fake reef. It is affectionately called &#8220;The Great Carrier Reef&#8221; ....I like that.<br><br>The good weather couldn&#8217;t last forever. A massive storm hit us yesterday. It was truly gigantic. If that&#8217;s just a big storm I really cannot begin to comprehend what ...

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 ...

... presumably in the 9th ward in eastern New Orleans. Confident that he was on course, Clark continued through the gauntlet of destruction and terrible neighborhoods that still showed remnants of Katrina. A 30' motor home pulling an automobile is a sitting duck in these parts and Ellen was nervous. Clark fearlessly journeyed on to a small strip of marshland barely above the water table disguised as ...

... ferry ride across Mobile Bay was beautiful, with warm, sunny skies and sparkling water. There were numerous oil platforms in the bay, but we gave them wide berth. We arrived at Fort Morgan, and cycled the Gulf Shores Highway with Mobile Bay and Bon Secour Bay on one side, and the Gulf of Mexico on the other. We crossed numerous bridges over estuaries and intercoastal waterways. We had a wide bike path for most of the first 40 miles. While we did not encounter a "Welcome to ...