Ramada Limited Pensacola

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.

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.

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 ...

... 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.

see ya on the road tomorrow, hopefully.

RAH

... my hand is barely sore and not red at all. Very cool invention and costs about 5 bones.

As for todays ride, it was uneventful. I left Pearland TX around 1130am local time. Got really sleepy after an hour or so and pulled off to have a snack my aunt packed for me. After that i was fine for a few more hours but then I started nodding off again. Son of a! Exited in Lafayette LA and had some greasy ass chicken. I threw most of it ...

Well helloooooooo, it's been ages since we last chatted. What you been up to? How’s work? That bad huh? Oh well.

We’ve been taking some time out from our very busy schedule to do some serious relaxing. All this holidaying was putting strain on our relationship so we thought we’d make a conscious effort to stop having a brilliant time and enjoy ourselves for a bit. HA! I hate me too.

We hopped on a Greyhound bus in New Orleans bound for ...

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 & 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 ...

... wonderful. It did rain but mostly all around us. When it did rain we were at the Wharf and on our way to Johnny Rockets. It was fun and the food was really good. We usually don't play the juke box but did this time. I was surprised by the song my daughter-in-law played. I did not know she likes the Temptations! We ate at our favorite places again and again the food was delicious. One place we ...

... tragedy and there we sat. Finally, we got to cross the bridge. Guess what, we didn't fit! Not with that other oncoming truck anyway! We both stopped, mid-bridge. Can't back up, both had a line of cars behind us. Clark inched forward with his eyes closed waiting for the inevitable sound of metal on metal. We actually passed without incident, other than Clark needed to go change his pants. YUCK! We ...

... as well as numerous railroad tracks to contend with. We passed the Pensacola Navy Base, home of the Blue Angels. Several people stopped at Bikes Plus, the local bike shop, which is the first we have encountered since College Station, Texas. Many people had mechanical issues and the shop was soon very busy. Delores was sagging today, so I offered to speak with the mechanic and oversee her bike repair. While I waited for Delores to finish the 40-mile SAG stop, I conducted ...