The white sands and clear waters on Dauphin Island

Odometer Reading: 4,198 Miles (Dauphin Island, Alabama and Destin, Florida)

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July 7th 2012
About an hour's drive east from New Orleans is Biloxi, Mississippi. We had pondered spending a night in Biloxi before we arrived. Thereafter, we concluded that we would only be passing through, and quickly at that. Perhaps Biloxi was much nicer in its heyday, and in all fairness, Katrina pretty much wiped this place off the map, but the town lacked any allure from what we could garner in an h ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more