Sleep Inn Pensacola

Pensacola... the show was good, the hotel was horrible.

For the record, Pensacola does not count as Florida. The panhandle is not Florida. I know Florida. Pensacola is Alabama light.

I couldn't even find a Publix nearby!

On to New Orleans!!!!!

:)

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

... touching your "undergarments". Anyway it was a nice gesture and i have all clean stuff now.

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 ...

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.

Well, this is where we called home until the economy crashed and took my business with it. But that gave us an opportunity and impetus to seek broader learning in Saigon. Of all the places we've lived this is at the top. On the bay, with a yard, dog....the American dream. Quiet town living, safety, low cost of living, only the occasional hurricane. It is a good place. We miss our friends and will return.

... 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.

... old couple from Ontario...northeast of Toronto. They've been coming here for 20 years. It was just a tiny fishing village then. Now they have these monstrosities called hotels lining the beach. Back then the landlord at the place they were staying at offered to sell them the place instead of them paying rent every year. They declined. Rent now is 4 times more expensive. Then they indicate that they had bought a hobby farm just outside Toronto in 1975 for $35 ...