Blogs from Pensacola, Florida, United States, North America - page 5

Geo: 30.4208, -87.2172Today was beach day. We headed out to Santa Rosa Island, enjoyed the sun, sand and water which was warm enough to swim in comfortably. Then it was back into town to change and have dinner at the Oarhouse restaurant - a well known local restaurant where again we enjoyed some great seafood.... read more

Geo: 30.4208, -87.2172Today is our final day on the road. Starting from Panama City we stayed along the coast. Much of the area is very built up with low and high rise condos, townhouses and shopping areas. Definitely a haven for tourists. We did discover one older area which had a smaller beach community type of atmosphere. It is likely the homes on the beach in that area had been destroyed by Hurricane Ivan in 2004. Newer homes had been built nearer the shore and were built on stilts like others we had seen before. We arrived in Pensecola which is a very old settlement. It is the first to be settled in America by the Spaniards. The neighbourhood that Bill & Debi live in is known as North Hill and there are many older well ... read more

We were really tired. We took a while to leave the hotel room. When we finally left, we went to the National museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola. Amazing museum... lots of aircarfts from all the wars that the US has been in. As a guide told me, they receive damaged aircrafts or found in the ocean or found in some wierd place from wars as early as world war I, Vietnan or Korea, even from Iraque on a daily basis. But they don't keep them. They restore them and send them to museums all over the world. We didn't really stop to see the beach area, but from my window it looked gorgeous. After the museum Terry tried to fix some stuff on the trailer and that took forever but we drove a little bit ... read more

From Tallahassee we headed south to the coastal roads. There is so much of northern Florida that we've not seen in the years that we have lived here, so we decided to take our time and follow the "scenic" route through the panhandle. Frank is doing all the driving and I'm doing the navigating, photography, log keeping, garmin programing etc. That's keeping me mighty busy I might add. We've passed through the Apalachicola National Forest, and have actually seen a few hills (Florida is very flat down in the southern parts). The back roads are definitely slower but so much more interesting. We came across a field full of old very rusty cars which according to a lady at the local library, had been placed there as someones "artistic expression". If you're heading south on Highway ... read more

7.45 Bags to Coach! Had a bit of a sleep, stopped at a truck stop... nothing exciting there. We had another stop at Tallahassee, the capital of Florida, and another at Gainesville, where we went into a Target! Target in the US is more like a Big W... It all looks like Big W... plus they sell food and ice cream too. Some where along the way we were stuck in traffic for AGES! Standing still on this freeway... not so fun. We finally got closer and saw all these blue lights, realised it was an accident. Everyone was looking out the bus as we went past, as you do coz we're all sticky beaks... Then we all saw a body bag... It was fairly horrible... the smash looked pretty bad... So that put a pretty ... read more