Good morning, everyone! We are in Tallahassee, Florida
on our way to Austin, Texas
We are returning from our road trip through southern USA
But the story actually started a few days ago
We left Miami and stopped again in Orlando
From Orlando we came to Tallahassee
And we chose to do all the drive without paying tolls
We don't have the SunPass tag
So we had to choose some alternative routes
And the roads were really good actually
only ended up increasing the driving time
in about 30 to 40 minutes, right?
He says so
For most of the time we drove in the main freeways
Only in the Orlando metro area we needed to find different options, which is not difficult
You just put 'avoid tolls' on Google Maps
It does the job for you
We slept in Tallahassee and today we'll drive all the way to Austin. It's about 12 to 13 hours, depending on traffic
We're back on the Interstate 10 - the I-10 - and this is such a beautiful road to drive, look at all this green!
And we just gained an hour! Back on the Central time zone
This time I wanna see what we missed in northern Florida and Alabama
as when we came here, we drove all this at night
First stop, Pensacola
Pensacola reminds me of a TV show
There was a series called Pensacola - Wings of Gold
Do you guys remember that?
I never really watched but I remember it had to do with the military and in fact,
Pensacola is a very important military base here in the U.S.
In Pensacola they have the Naval Air Station, the first in the United States
To arrive in Pensacola, we chose the Scenic Highway. You go seeing the ocean
Wow, look at this view!
Because of the strong military presence here in Pensacola, drones are extremely forbidden everywhere
Rumor has it that they even have technology blocking drones from flying. In certain areas, at least
The beaches are located that way on islands here
It's easy to arrive, there are roads connecting, but for us it would add an extra hour, if not more, to the drive
To go and return... So we'll end up skipping this time
But I hear that they're beautiful! White sand beaches and the ocean with Caribbean like colors
We're excited about returning here
One day we''ll be back
So for now, let's enjoy a tour of downtown
Wow, Pensacola was founded in 1559
[Gordon ]So, it looks like yeah, we can get to the beach, this isn't... uh... It doesn't look like there's any...
[Renata] Toll? [Gordon] Toll, yeah
[Renata] Cool!
[Gordon] So we might as well go, right?
[Renata] Yep!
Might as well check it out, check, check, check, check,...
This is Perdido Key, between Pensacola and Orange Beach
Let's go see the beach
I could certainly spend the day here
The beach is absolutely beautiful, but of public space, only this little part here, at least here where I am
This side belongs to a resort
and this other side belongs to another
They're suffering from an invasion of lionfish
Wow, it looks like it's destroying the ecosystem here
The everyday training in the area
And now we continue along the coast
I bet there are more public beaches along this coast
Wow, they are so white, look at these dunes!
Miles and miles and miles of white sand dunes
So beautiful!
"Sweet Home Alabama!"
We're about to enter the Gulf State Park in the city of Gulf Shores
You can come here to launch your boat or to fish and there's no one here actually to collect the fee
They just trust you're going to pay, look at that. Three dollars for boat
Two dollars for fishing, and there's the box
Gas prices are already way cheaper in Alabama
We stopped here in between Battles Wharf and Fairhope, Alabama
Nice waterfront. You can see the bay and it's a butterfly sanctuary. Look at all these species here
From here we can already see Mobile across the bay, right there
It's the most important city in southern Alabama
First of all and very important: it's "Mo-bile" not "Mobil" not "Mob-ile"
Look at me! A Brazilian talking about English pronunciation
But actually the word is in French. Mobile was the first capital of Louisiana
You heard me right. Louisiana, not Alabama
At that time, Louisiana was huge. It used to occupy one third of the area of today's United States
Mobile had the first Mardi Gras ever in the United States, in 1699
In New Orleans it was just like thirty years later. This I learned at the Mardi Gras Museum in Lake Charles
But listen to this. At that time, as I explained, Mobile used to belong to Louisiana
So Louisiana is proud to have had the first Mardi Gras ever as a state
But when you come to the city level, it was Mobile, Alabama
There are no main cities along the road here in Mississippi, so we're just going straight through the state
Here we are again at Atchafalaya National Reserve
From here on, I already showed in multiple videos
It took us 18 hours to arrive
That's because we stopped a lot in Florida and Alabama and also because we got some traffic in Louisiana
Oh well, here we are! Austin, Texas
And if I can give you one more tip
in addition to things to do along the way, it would be to fill in when you get to Texas
Gas prices are so much cheaper here, up to a dollar less compared to downtown Miami and Miami Beach, really
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