Hello everyone! I'm still on the road on my way to Florida
We're almost arriving in Mississippi
But before leaving Louisiana we're gonna stop
in a small town to check a world record
Got curious? Keep watching
Welcome to Mandeville
I didn't expect to find such a charming community here
Hey!
Here they have the longest bridge in the world
It's in the Guinness Book
Officially it's the longest continuous bridge
over water in the world
Almost a 24-mile long bridge
It's crazy, it crosses an entire lake
and you cannot even see the other side
Hmm, it's just disappointing to film from here
I didn't think we would be so far
and it's really, really windy today
so might be risky to fly the drone
But still... We're really far
It wouldn't work anyways
This tree is all over town
Look at this. This is kind of funny
It could be in a horror movie
Oh wow!
I read online that this is like a weekend destination
for people from New Orleans
But, wow! What a weekend destination!
Very nice!
Look at these houses how interesting
They're all built like this
Just basically nothing on the ground floor
And that's because of flooding that could happen with hurricanes
You know? Like it happened with Katrina
In Mandeville they also have the largest
certified Southern Live Oak tree
What I read online is not clear
if it's the largest in the United States or in the world
But now that I saw that tree, I'm curious if that's the species, you know?
Guess what? It was...
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Mississippi
We just passed a NASA facility here
As I didn't know it was here, I didn't record
I didn't have the camera on, but there was a nice rocket in front of it
So I went online and discovered this here
That was Infinity. It's the official visitor center
for NASA's Stennis Space Center
And Stennis Center is NASA's largest rocket engine test facility
How cool!
Oh, let me show you something else
This is what I saw, it's a Saturn V
It's the most powerful rocket ever built
I'm crazy about NASA, guys. I love all this!
Actually, I've seen other two Saturn V rockets
One in Houston and the other in Huntsville
The biggest rocket ever, the Saturn V
It was in one of these that men went to the moon
We're talking about the Apollo missions
Remember this in Houston, there's one over there, too
This is so gigantic
The capital of Mississippi is Jackson, which is more inland and we won't drive nearby
You know, Mississippi, despite being relatively big in size
It has about three million people living here
In the entire state
As a comparison, only the metropolitan area of Miami
has almost twice that amount
We'll drive the entire state of Mississippi
in about an hour because it's only from here to here
See? We're already halfway there
Actually, that's because just a small part of Mississippi reaches the ocean right here
All this other part here is Louisiana
And it'll be the same thing for Alabama, look at this
Here
Only this tiny part reaches the ocean
And then we already arrive in Florida, so it'll be...
It's probably like 30 minutes more to
finish Mississippi and an hour to cross Alabama
Look at where we are now
close to the entrance to Gulfport
And then we're going to drive by the entrance to Biloxi
And that's it. We're done with Mississippi
Uh, oh
Alabama
Well, remember my idea of crossing the entire states of
Mississippi and Alabama
in less than one hour each? It didn't work out
We got some traffic, there was an accident on the way
which ended up delaying our trip in over an hour
So we just didn't stop anymore anywhere else, we just came directly here to Panama City Beach, in Florida
We'll spend the night here and tomorrow we're going to check out this place. I heard it's beautiful
Our original idea was to sleep in Mobile
But yesterday I discovered something that totally changed our plans for the better
So we drove three more hours, and we're now in Panama City Beach
Because I really wanted to see this place
The fact is this is like an hour out of our way
Not sure my husband realizes that
because I'm the GPS and I did all the planning here
And he's there right now checking us in at the hotel
while I wait here in the car... Our entrance might be different
But it just occurred to me he might discover
when he sees this video
Oh, man! I just hope that this beach is beautiful tomorrow
Oh, I didn't forget about Pensacola
We're gonna stop there on the way back
And I'm not gonna tell you what made us change our plans... You have to watch the next vlog
But there's a hint actually in this video. There was something that got me all excited on the road