Road Trip – Miami to Los Angeles

Day 1 – Miami to Lake City

Picked up the car today, first time driving in 10 months – other side of the road and other side of the car – bit scared!!.

First challenge,  how to work the GPS!. We  made it out of Miami with only a few insults hurled at us!!.  Once out on the interstate highway, we started to get used to the right side & the left hand drive!!. We tried to go as far north as possible today. We ended up in Lake City (Northern Florida) by sunset, so stopped at one of the incredibly cheap highway hotels, this one was a Best Western for $65 p/n for a room with 2 queen beds, free wi fi,breakfast,gym, pool & sauna!…..things were looking good,  as our budget for hotels across America was $200p/n.

Day 2 – Lake City to Pensacola

Unlike most of this year when we have just got out of bed when we felt like it, we have started setting the iphone alarm clock!!!(Yuck), so we can try and be on the road by about 8.30am.

Today we were aiming for New Orleans,but after a couple of stops, by about 5.30pm it was starting to get dark, so we deceided to stop in Pensacola. We found a Comfort Inn (Similar deal  – $65 p/n).

Tonight we ventured out into town,to go to a buffet restaurant at about $5.00 p/head, we all had a good feed – but probably overdid it – Welcome to America!!

Day 3 – Pensacola to New Orleans

As it turned out, our unplanned stop in Pensacola turned out to be quite fortuitous, as Pensacola has the National Navy Museum there.
We went and checked it out (also free!), and even luckier for us, today was Veterans day, so they were having a huge aeronautics show on. It was like watching Top Gun, definately a “big” kids day as well.   (check out our video – on our flickr link).

After the show it was supposed to be a quick 45 minute drive to New Orleans, or so i thought.  Anyone who knows me well, knows that Maths is one of my strenghts, well not today. Three & a half hours later and we roll into New Orleans. (i was popular….Not)