Since Orlando is so far from our house, we decided to do a stop over in Pensacola, FL, on both the way to and from Orlando. This proved to be a great half way stop. It took about 12 hours to get to our first campsite, Ft Pickens. This was with very minimal stops. The actual driving time was about 11 hours, which seemed like forever since we not only left at 2:30 am, but only pretty much had pine trees to stare at for several hours, who knew Florida had so many pine trees. Ft. Pickens was beautiful. The white sand looked like snow everywhere. We toured the naval aviation museum on the first stop over, and then toured Ft Pickens and played at the beach on the second stop over. The naval museum was really neat. It also allows the kids to touch pretty much everything so there was no worry about the kids getting fingerprints on everything. We spent the whole day there and were too tired to tour the lighthouse across the street or Ft Barrancas. We plan to visit them on our next trip t