Getting to Savannah

A little out of sequence, but I had to include a description of the drive leading from N'Orleans to Savannah, a distance of almost 700 miles.We headed out on the fifth of October going east along Interstate 10. This part of our Fall Adventure took us through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida before we stopped for the night in Madison FL. We could not get reservations anywhere else in northern Florida - football weekend!

Lake Pontchartrain

If I thought crossing the Atchafalaya Basin was an impressive ride, the trip out of New Orleans over Lake Pontchartrain Causeway was, as they say, "something else". I remember the references to this lake during Hurricane Katrina, but seeing it up close gave me a better understanding of the magnitude of this body of water. The bridge crossing Lake Pontchartrain spans over 23 miles, making it the longest bridge over water (continuous) in the world. And...I'll vouch for that. What an experience - it feels like crossing an ocean.(OK, slight exaggeration.)

Blue Angels

Triangle Peg Game
 at Crackerbarrel

The trip along I-10  was accompanied by intermittent showers, but was uneventful overall. We crossed Mobile Bay on, yet again, another long twin-bridge crossing. (Starting to get used to these.) From the road, we saw the USS Alabama in Mobile and got a glimpse of  the home of the Blue Angels in Pensacola. But there was no stopping to sight-see. A more mundane experience was our stop for lunch at the Crackerbarrel in Crestview, Floriada where Terry played the Triangle Peg Game. (I think he cheated.) It had been decades since doing the Crackerbarrel thing, and it was all that I remembered - a little bit of everything.

We arrived in Madison, Florida for a night at the Days Inn which was right next door to a Denny's - built-in dinner and breakfast destinations. Not too much else around Madison. However, true to much of the South, there was a DQ not far away . By the way, the South loves DQ; they are all over!

Next morning we traveled a short distance east and then turned left - heading north!