The
view of the Gulf from the motel I stayed at was pretty cool.
And
here's the motel: Howard Johnson's.
A
look west on US 98, which parallels the coast for most of its stay in
Florida.
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US 98 West.The Gulf Coast
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The
view of the Gulf from the motel I stayed at was pretty cool. |
And
here's the motel: Howard Johnson's. |
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A
look west on US 98, which parallels the coast for most of its stay in
Florida. |
More
US 98 West. |
 Mel
Martinez supporters (boooo!) in back of a US 98 shield. |
 ALT
98 hugs the coast for a while before rejoining US 98 further east.
This is the western end. |
 ALT
98 is shown as scenic on my Rand McNally atlas, but really it is quite the
opposite. |
 Can't
say I have anything to say about this one. |
 Most
of the hotels on ALT 98 are deep in construction. Hurricane Ivan
definitely left its mark on Florida. The Gulf literally comes up to
the backs of the buildings on the right. |
 This
pic was taken from ALT 98. Just a narrow strip of sand with a narrow
strip of dune. That's it. |
 Hotels
galore. The Americana seems like it has seen better days. |
 Back
on US 98 now, going over a large bridge. |
 Yuck.
Traffic on US 98 East. |
 Wow!!!
Colored Florida US shields!!! These are almost extinct but they were
the norm back in the day. |
 Some
random shields. |
 More
random shields. |
 Ooh!
Pretty blue car parked along US 98 as seen from the beach. |
 This
beach. |
 How
cute, a ickle bitty crabby-poo!! |
 Pretty
beaches in these parts. |
 Beach. |
 I
guess it's too far east for Ivan to have done too much damage here. |
 The
Gulf has just dispensed with the beaches and licks the edge of US 98. |
 Scene
along US 98 somewhere. |
 I
wonder how much this road floods... |
 Going
through a bit of southern forest. A break from the water. |
 Now
on a loop road, which is both County Road and FL State Road 30. |
 Continuing
down "Route" 30 East. |
 In
Apalachicola, still on US 98. |
 Central
Apalachicola. I ate lunch at a great seafood restaurant just behind
the camera. Quick, cheap, and yummy. I forget the name, though. |
 The
long bridge headed out of Apalachicola... |
 ...turns
into a long causeway back across a large inlet... |
 ...and
at the end of the causeway, US 319 mysteriously appears. |
 A
little out of order here, this is the causeway before US 319 begins. |
 The
Gulf is close to the road again. |
 I
turned around temporarily to catch the sun glinting off the water. It
looked better in person. |
 Icky
beach. It gets worse in subsequent pictures. |
 Look
at that beautiful...brown?...water. Ick beach. |
 The
panorama ick beach. |
 A
windsurfer in the ick water. |
 Birds
on the ick beach. |
 A
dock off of US 98 in some town somewhere. |
 US
319 and US 98 split up for a few miles. They come back together for a
short time later on. |
 A
nice bridge heading into another small town. |