We headed out on July 11 for our annual beach trip to Panama City, Florida. We pulled out of our drive-way at 8:20 AM and stopped at Sonic in town for a large sweet tea and three cheeseburgers (kids breakfast, lol). Mileage was 66,022. We officially left Brenham at 8:51 AM and crossed the Louisiana state line at 11:23 AM with no stops. Our first stop was for gas and potty at 1:16 PM in Grosse Tete, LA. Our mileage was 335.5. After our quick gas and potty break we were back on the road at 1:23 PM. We detoured serious traffic congestion and road construction on I-10 by taking LA 77 in Grosse Tete to LA 76 in Rosedale to LA 413 to 190. This took us around Baton Rouge to the north. We were back on I-12 at 2:27 PM and took the next exit to grab our lunch at Raising Canes and the kids lunch from McDonalds. We used drive-thrus at both and kept on driving.
Mallory fell asleep after eating her chicken nuggets. Dalton stayed occupied with his rainbow loom and watched a movie until he fell asleep later. We hit our first rain between Hammond, LA and Slidell, LA which of course affected traffic. We crossed the Mississippi state line at 4:20 PM. Our mileage was 463. Mallory woke up from her nap at 5:15 PM and we crossed the Alabama state line at 5:23 PM with a mileage of 537.8. We arrived at our hotel for the night, Hampton Inn & Suites in Mobile, Alambama at 5:54 PM.
Day 1's total mileage was 564.9 with one gas/potty actual stop and 1 drive-thru lunch. A total of 9 1/2 vehicle hours. We ate dinner in Mobile, AL one block from the hotel outside on the patio at The Royal Scam. It was delish! We headed back to the room for a restful nights sleep.
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