A Texan goes to the Redneck Riviera

[maxnharry]

Spent my first two years in the Navy in he area. Love the whole area from Gulf Shores to Panama City.

 

[The Gimp]

Originally Posted by VKK3450

Club LA VELA!!!!!!!!!!

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Party with Thousands!

 

[The Gimp]

Originally Posted by FLMountainMan

That area of the Gulf Coast is beautiful. I live in Tallahassee now, and all my local friends seem to be having their weddings on St. George Island. It's great. Enjoy it now before St. Joe's develops it all.

I personally LOVE Tally. Home of my Alma Mater, more culture than most other Florida cities, a few rolling hills, character. I could live there if an opportunity presented itself, until then I head over there every couple of weeks for business (from Jax).

Back in the day Ken's was my 'spot'. You have no idea how much money I spent there at $1.50 a pop (16 ounce draft in my 'Ken's Mug'). Glory days. . .

Now days we hit Finnegan's Wake and the Po' Boys downtown.

 

[FLMountainMan]

Originally Posted by The Gimp

I personally LOVE Tally. Home of my Alma Mater, more culture than most other Florida cities, a few rolling hills, character. I could live there if an opportunity presented itself, until then I head over there every couple of weeks for business (from Jax).

Back in the day Ken's was my 'spot'. You have no idea how much money I spent there at $1.50 a pop (16 ounce draft in my 'Ken's Mug'). Glory days. . .

Now days we hit Finnegan's Wake and the Po' Boys downtown.

I love Tally, too. I actually took a 40% pay cut to move back here from St. Pete. I'm a big hiking/kayaking guy and there's tons of stuff to do around here. Plus, I get to attend one of the cheapest graduate schools in the country, be surrounded by boatloads of hot women, and I live in a great neighborhood - the top of the next hill over from the Capitol, I usually walk five blocks to work, and downtown Po' Boys is four blocks from my house. I usually go there, Birds, Finnegan's, or Chez.

 

[Mark from Plano]

Headed back down to the beach for a week. Whoo Hoo! See you bitches later!

 

[FLMountainMan]

Originally Posted by Brogue

I love the canopy roads surrounding Tallahassee; hopefully the developers won't get them. The St. Joe paper company is selling off the last vestige of the great southern pine forest.



Good to see a fellow Tallahassean on here!

 

[rnoldh]

Good to see the area coming back.

My friend tried some development there in 2004 and was going gangbusters till Katrina hit.

That stopped development in it's tracks and he went bankrupt.

But, It's a beautiful, pretty much relatively undiscovered area, and I think eventually it will be fine.

I assume you drove from Dallas. From Houston, it's a straight shot on I-10, but it's a boring drive.

 

[Mark from Plano]

Originally Posted by rnoldh

Good to see the area coming back.

My friend tried some development there in 2004 and was going gangbusters till Katrina hit.

That stopped development in it's tracks and he went bankrupt.

But, It's a beautiful, pretty much relatively undiscovered area, and I think eventually it will be fine.

I assume you drove from Dallas. From Houston, it's a straight shot on I-10, but it's a boring drive.

I'm actually leaving later this afternoon. In the past we've always driven to Shreveport, then headed south through Baton Rouge and then north of the lake into Mississippi, then along the coast.

This time I'm going to go through Vicksburg and spend the night in Jackson. We'll get up in the morning and go through Hattiesburg down to Mobile and across. A little shorter, but not as much interstate. Time should be about the same, but just a bit of different scenery. Depending on how it goes, I'll decide which way to come home.

 

[Davidko19]

I LOVE PANAMA CITY CITY BEACH.

Just gonna throw that out there. I had some of my best memories there on spring break. OOhhh lawd!

 

[JSC437]

Originally Posted by FLMountainMan

Good to see a fellow Tallahassean on here!

I used to live in Tally!!! I love it there. You guys are lucky.

 

[Mark from Plano]

Well...back from a great week on the beach. Lots of relaxing. Got through "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy (finally!!). Planned to take several other books, but somehow the stack got put away the day we left and in my final rush packing I left them at home.

Took the kids fishing one day, but got nearly shut out (2 small snapper and a small squirrel fish, plus several too small to keep). Not even enough for dinner.

We were there with my sister and brother-in-law and their 8 kids (5 are adopted and 2 are foster kids). My b-i-l is a former scuba instructor, so he took the teenagers scuba diving three days. My 14 year-old went down 70 feet one day with him.

I cook once a year (on vacation). Lots of fish: Broiled three pepper snapper with a mango salsa one night; Broiled grouper in an orange butter sauce another. One night I made a flank steak with balsamic onion relish. Not up to the standards of many on this board, but everyone liked it (I think) and it was fun. With 10 kids running around the house, dinner was a zoo. Not as relaxing as I would have liked, but it was what it was.

Took the kids to see three movies: Land of the Lost, Terminator and UP. All pretty mediocre if you ask me.

On the way home we decided to do an impromptu night in New Orleans. Got some fairly cheap rooms in the Quarter (Marriott...it was last minute so I was glad to get anything). Walked around the Quarter yesterday afternoon, then went back to the hotel for drinks and to rest before dinner. Went over to Royal Street and popped into a few of the shops. Got into K-Paul's without a reservation (the kids didn't have clothes with them for anything more upscale). Food was great.

K-Paul's Protip: Take a pass on the Cajun Martini. The waiter told me he had a 100% hit rate on it. I didn't have the heart to tell him that his record had been spoiled. Maybe he figured it out since I left 80% of it on the table.

Kids wanted Cafe du Monde beignets for breakfast this morning, so we dropped by there after checking out of the hotel, then took a drive through the Garden District.

Anyway...back home and back to work tomorrow.

 

[GQgeek]

I want a beach house to be my permanent address.

 

[Mark from Plano]

Originally Posted by GQgeek

I want a beach house to be my permanent address.

Saw a lot for sale. All it takes is money.

 

[gnatty8]

Originally Posted by Mark from Plano

Well...back from a great week on the beach.

Sorry to hear that..

Sounds like you had a great week though.. We used to do that part of Florida as a long weekend trip from Georgia, and always had fun.