Florida

We made a quick stop in Jacksonville to check out River City Brewing Company.  The restaurant was cool with a huge outside deck area and stage for live music. Unfortunately, their beer tasted like pool water. A flight of 5 beers only cost $2.50 though, so you get what you pay for! That was about all we did in Jacksonville, our next stop was St. Augustine. It was first discovered in 1565 by the Spanish and is now the oldest continually occupied city in the United States. It has small little alley ways with little shops and grand castle-like structures. It was one of the most beautiful cities we've seen. While there, we stopped by Ripley's Believe it or Not and saw a real tree house. It's a house made from one section of a giant sequoia and has 4 rooms!

We drove through a few beach towns on our way down Route 1 to Miami. Most of them, including Daytona Beach seemed to just be a series of hotels. Unfortunately for most of the drive we were encountering rain on and off, and warnings of hail storms! Luckily, hail never came but the rain made us stop driving shortly after Daytona.