I should mention that I'm not entirely alone for this trip.  Eyebrawl of Skylanders Giants fame has joined me for the trip and he's very excited about it all.

This is his first trip outside of Texas!

Surprisingly, I was given a rental car today (rank has its privileges.)  I realized when I got to the car that I didn't know how to get back to the base and didn't have a map.  I remember when people used to just drive around for fun.  There'd be a road they hadn't been down before and they'd drive it just to see what there was to see.  These days with smartphones and GPS no one does that.  They have navigation to take them exactly where they want to go and if they do consider going someplace new they just pull up the map to see what's there before deciding whether to go or not.  Well I don't have a smartphone and so Eyebrawl wanted to us find the beach.

The Gulf coast isn't much to look at but it turns out you can find a pretty good crawfish poboy.