Sunrise view from hotel room balcony in Pensicola, FL.
The beach is not as fun when the temperature is below 40 degrees.
Entrance to the US Naval Aviation Museum.
One of the museum's two F4F Wildcats recovered from Lake Michigan.
Interior of the command module for Skylab II, flown by an all Navy crew of course.
Four Blue Angel A-4D Skyhawks hung in one of the diamond formations they flew with 18“ separation.
View of the museum's South wing containing modern and pre-WWII naval aircraft.
Another view of the Blue Angels A-4D Skyhawks hung in diamond formation with standard 18“ flight spacing.
The museum's West wing with WWII naval aircraft on a reproduction of the USS Cabot's flight deck.
A missile on display on the parking lot edge (surrounded by construction equipment for some reason).
A boilerplate Apollo command module used to practice ocean recoveries is also on the parking lot's back edge.
Pensacola Lighthouse located on the naval base.
A P-51D Mustang flown by the Tuskegee Airmen. Unfortunately the nickname earning red tail was damaged by hurricane Katrina.
Front tip of the A-12 Blackbird. This smaller, single seat precursor to the more famous two seat SR-71 was flown by the CIA.
The USS DRUM (SS-228), a Gato-class submarine, was also damaged when hurricane Katrina came ashore.
The USS Alabama itself, a South Dakota-class battleship.
Me standing next to a Redstone missile, the pre-cursor to the Mercury Redstone used to launch the USA's first astronaut.
A B-52D Stratofortress, also still showing scars from hurricane Katrina.
Fehr's Overlook Structure can be reached by a short hike in Bastrop State Park.
A few of Bastrop State Park's "Lost Pines," an isolated timbered region of loblolly pine and hardwoods.
One of Bastrop State Park's cabins is across the lake.
