Ok DISers, heres the setup:
Me and my GF are going to be driving from Alexander City, AL to Orlando, FL for a much needed vacation, I originally planned out to leave the morning of our check in at like 5-6 and make the 10 hour drive in one day. Well, we talked about leaving a day early and is started looking at the map. I realized if we broke the drive into 2 days, we could do a 8 hour drive to jacksonville then a 3 hour drive to Orlando the next day. Google Maps wants me to take i-95 from Jacksonville, but i noticed A1A, a coastline road.
This would be an amazing drive IMHO since while it might add some time to our drive, we arent in any rush (Its a vacation afterall
) AND we would be driving my Jeep Wrangler, meaning the top down the entire way 
.
So here are my questions:
1. How is the drive along A1A (in particular, Jacksonville to Daytona), We would be doing the drive on a tuesday in late june.
2. Is there alot of stop and go or is it realitvly open outside of the cities?
3. Is the view as good as it looks on the Satalite imagery?
4. And finally: Would you reccomend this route (Alex City, AL to Jaksonville, FL to Orlando, FL via A1A) Or is there an equivilant to A1A along the gulf of mexico?
Thanks for any help you can provide!
Me and my GF are going to be driving from Alexander City, AL to Orlando, FL for a much needed vacation, I originally planned out to leave the morning of our check in at like 5-6 and make the 10 hour drive in one day. Well, we talked about leaving a day early and is started looking at the map. I realized if we broke the drive into 2 days, we could do a 8 hour drive to jacksonville then a 3 hour drive to Orlando the next day. Google Maps wants me to take i-95 from Jacksonville, but i noticed A1A, a coastline road.
This would be an amazing drive IMHO since while it might add some time to our drive, we arent in any rush (Its a vacation afterall
) AND we would be driving my Jeep Wrangler, meaning the top down the entire way . So here are my questions:
1. How is the drive along A1A (in particular, Jacksonville to Daytona), We would be doing the drive on a tuesday in late june.
2. Is there alot of stop and go or is it realitvly open outside of the cities?
3. Is the view as good as it looks on the Satalite imagery?
4. And finally: Would you reccomend this route (Alex City, AL to Jaksonville, FL to Orlando, FL via A1A) Or is there an equivilant to A1A along the gulf of mexico?
Thanks for any help you can provide!
