Finding Our Way
The entrance to the park is located right off Interstate 10 directly east of Mobile, Alabama along the Mobile Bay. There is a $5 entrance fee/parking fee to enter the park. There is an additional fee to enter the museum building and tour the USS Alabama battleship and the USS
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Naples, Florida Naples, Florida sits along the Gulf of Mexico and is known for white sandy beaches, golf courses, high-end shopping, and fine dining restaurants. It is one of the wealthiest cities in the US and is the sixth-highest per capita income in the country. With a population of about
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The Tamiami Trail is the southernmost 275 miles of Highway 41 in Florida constructed in 1928. It is known for air boats and alligators amongst other things. It goes from Miami to Tampa with a little over 160 miles that covers the east west road from Homestead to Naples. We
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Daytona Beach and New Smyrna Beach are both on the Atlantic coast with great hard-packed sand beaches and plenty of things to see and do. Daytona is about 50 miles northeast of Orlando, home to the Daytona International Speedway, and the headquarters for NASCAR, LPGA, IMSA, and the International Speedway
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Watercolor and Seaside are not too far from Topsail Hill Preserve State Park so we took a day trip to explore the area. Scenic Highway 30A is located in the heart of Florida’s emerald coast in the Florida panhandle. It is 24 miles long and skirts along quaint, charming seaside
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While staying at Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou State Park we ventured out to Destin and Ft Walton and the surrounding area. Our first stop was Henderson Beach State Park. We departed Rocky Bayou State Park and headed south over the Mid Bay Bridge using our SunPass toll transponder. All worked
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The Great River Road, AKA Plantation Alley, in Louisiana lies between New Orleans and Baton Rouge and is known for all the grand plantations which sit along the Mississippi River. Plantation Alley is about 70 miles long and consists of large land tracts with mansions which had slave quarters and
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We departed Goldfield and drove south to Beatty, Nevada which is the gateway to Death Valley (but yet 20 degrees cooler). Beatty is located just 7 miles east of the border of Death Valley National Park and about 100 miles north of Las Vegas. It is advertised to have 108
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Coos Bay (previously known as Marshfield) has a history with lumber and shipbuilding and is the largest city on the Oregon coast with a population of over 16,000. There are a variety of activities and state parks in the area that kept us busy for days and days! Coos City
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The Newport area has so much to see and do that you can keep busy for literally weeks. Newport has a population of over 10,000 people and sits on the central coast of Oregon. It is located at the western terminus of US Route 20 which is the longest road
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