Tradewinds By Sugar Sands Orange Beach

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.

... 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

... West and Hemmingways house to see his 5 million cats. Oh, and one last thing: I always knew it would happen, just not this soon in life. I've met someone dumber than I. When i pulled up to the hotel I saw a dude on a BICYCLE. He was making a trip similar to mine only he started in St. Augustine FL and is bound for San Diego CA. on a bicycle.....he rode 180 miles today. Yep, it takes on kinds.

Keep the rubber side down-

RAH

... down to over-excitement and/or sun-stroke.

I had a brief but satisfactory moment of Zen a couple of days ago. Trace and I were flip-flopping around in the water and I started messing about making “eeek eeek” sounds. Trace looked at me sternly and said “What the hell are you doing?” to which I replied “Calling the dolphins.” Not a word of a lie, as Trace said “You’re an idiot”, about two hundred meters away an all ...

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.

10 pm

Dad's b-day

Pensecola Beach Bar

Went to a bar called The Sandshaker, ordered 2 Bushwackers, and that's about the last event we remember.

Oh, and about an hour before that we ran into a kid named Athan I went to JU with.

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 ...

... PRAISE BE TO THE LORD! ALSO, A BIG THANK YOU, FATHER! OH, THE ROYAL REDS AT BUBBA'S WERE SO GOOD! THE SEAFOOD AT HAZELS WAS EQUALLY AS GOOD, ESPECIALLY THE CRAB LEGS! WE DID NOT SEE AS MANY PELICANS, SEAGULLS OR SAND PIPERS...IN FACT, I DID NOT SEE ONE SAND PIPER! THE WATERS WERE CALM THE FIRST DAY BUT THE SECOND DAY YOU KNEW WHAT MIGHT BE COMING OUR WAY. WE MET AN EXPECTANT COUPLE FROM ANDOLUSIA, ALABAMA. HE ...

... not make it to eat was Lambert's! Lord willing, we will get to eat there next time. We went back to Bear Point Marina and went on the Dolphin Cruise. This Dolphin Crusie was better than the last. The video clips are pretty good. Three days, for me, is just not a long enough! Anyway, on the way out the kids called us and told us they were going out to the bridge and take pictures of the birds ...