Day Eleven: New Orleans, Lousiana to Panama City, Florida

We said goodbye to New Orleans this morning after a quick breakfast at the Hilton. Back on the road we hit eastbound Interstate 10 and headed for Florida. Josh asked dozens of hurricane-related questions today. I guess the movie yesterday really got him thinking about storms, floods, and evacuations. We spent the whole day reassuring him that we weren't going to get hit by a hurricane, cyclone, tornado, typhoon or tsunami. That said, it was creepy passing by entire districts that obviously hadn't been rebuilt since Katrina. We passed Six Flags New Orleans just outside of town, now abandoned. The site of beautiful roller coasters falling down was a bummer. Before too long the sun was shining and that cheered us up. We took some nice state line photos at the Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida borders. The clouds threatened several times, but we never saw rain until late in the day. We drove along the Gulf of Mexico for a couple hours, passing through a bunch of resort towns. They all looked great, but we continued on to Panama City. We arrived at the Quality Inn at 5:30pm, and it started to rain. No swimming (pool was gross anyway) so we headed off to T.G.I. Fridays for dinner. After dinner we walked the beach and watched the sunset. The beach was rather disgusting, but the sunset was spectacular. We shot many photos. Tomorrow we're off to Savannah...

License Plate spotted: Nevada