Long Weekend
3 days · ~250 miles · from Pensacola
Dune lakes, Truman Show streets, a phone-booth police station and the springs where Hollywood kept its monsters — Old Florida in one weekend.
This trip chains: The Forgotten Coast
Joe Patti's provisioning run, then east: Gulf Breeze (watch the skies), Fort Walton's temple mound, and onto 30A — paddle a dune lake at Grayton, sunset drinks at the Red Bar, walk Seaside and check for cameras.
Cape San Blas detour for the wild beach, Constitution museum at Port St. Joe, into Apalachicola by mid-afternoon: porch beer at the Gibson Inn, whatever's local on ice.
St. George lighthouse climb, Carrabelle's phone-booth police department, a worm-grunting pilgrimage through Sopchoppy, the jungle cruise and 1937 lodge at Wakulla Springs — end at the St. Marks lighthouse with oysters at the river.