Pensacola Song (and Official Music Video)

We loved our time in Pensacola! Biking, bucket lists, and beer. That was our first big trip in our RV, and because of that Pensacola will always have a special place in my heart.

PS: I’m not a professional singer or musician. Be kind.

Lyrics to the Pensacola Song

VERSE 1:
It’s that
Time of year
To head down south
And drink some beer

Pack the RV
Grab the sandals
And take a trip
To the panhandle

To the beach
Let’s lay in the sun
Sip on a bushwacker
With coconuts and Rum

Let’s take a stroll around
Pensacola beach and town
Park the RV
At the Campground

We’ll bring the bikes
We’ll bring the hounds.
I promise to buy the
Second round

VERSE 2:
It’s time
I cannot wait
For the western gate
To the Sunshine State

The Five Flags fly
The Blue Angels too
Catch a pop fly
From the Blue Wahoos.

Bike the ocean
With the Pelicans.
Learn/ some history
About Fort Pickens

We’ll take a hike
To old battlegrounds
I promise to get the
Next round

VERSE 3:
It’s time
For the Big Lagoon or
Hiking Tarkiln Bayou
All afternoon

Graffiti Bridge
Is artful fun
And so is hunting
All pelicans.

Let’s rock and roll around
Pensacola beach and town
And meander though
Our favorite campground

We’ll ride the bikes
And walk the hounds.
I promise not to get
Turned around.

VERSE 4:
It’s time
For a toast
To Ye Old Brothers
And the Gulf Coast

A Little Madness
The Big Top
Perfect Plain and Beardless
Are worth a stop

So grab a pint
From Odd Colony
St. Michaels, Spar,
Or the Coastal County

Let’s try all the beer around
Pensacola beach and town
Take some back
To the campground.

We’ll light a fire
Crack stout or brown.
I promise this is the
Last round.

Our Blogs and Videos on Pensacola, Florida:

Five Flags RV Park in Pensacola — A wonderful RV park!

Pensacola: Parks and Pelicans — Graffiti Bridge, Downtown Pensacola, and more!

Fort Pickens: Biking, Beaches & Battlegrounds — A bike ride that is a true bucket list!

Pensacola Breweries (Classy Beer Awards - Pensacola Edition)

• A Little Madness

• Beardless Brewing (Milton)

• Big Top Brewing

• Coastal County Brewing

• Gulf Coast Brewery

• Odd Colony Brewing Company

• Pensacola Bay Brewery

• Perfect Plain Brewing Co.

• Spahr Brewing Company

• St. Michael’s Brewing Company (Navarre)

• Ye Olde Brothers Brewery (Navarre)

Music Credits for the Pensacola Song

(1) The music is a song called "Rocker Chicks" by Jason Shaw (audionautix.com) licensed under CC-BY 4.0.

(2) The lyrics/vocals/remix were created by Lana Knedlik. The lyrics/vocals/remix are what constitutes the "official music video" (not the underlying song).

Copyright 2021 by Lana Knedlik
All Rights Reserved.

Fort Pickens-Biking, Beaches & Battlegrounds

When:  Monday, February 8 to Friday, February 12, 2021 (five nights)
Where:  Fort Pickens, Gulf Islands National Seashore, Sites 25 and 18 (loop A)
Cost:  $40/night ($20 with a National Parks Pass) for water and electric hook-ups
Bucket Lists:  Biking the Fort Pickens road along the beach 
Biking: Ditto. See above. (As the lawyers say: “see, supra, Bucket List.”)

While the first part of our Pensacola trip focused on the mainland, we spent the the latter part at Fort Pickens located on Santa Rosa Island in the Gulf Island National Seashore.  Because of Hurricane Sally, the main bridge was closed, making the route to our destination a little longer than we had planned (about 1.5 hours in “RV time”).  However, once we arrived at Fort Pickens, it did not disappoint.

Surrounded by sand and water on both sides, the road to the campground itself is amazing.  Storms had ushered in mounds of sand such that we saw a couple of bulldozers moving sand from the road.   When Kasie texted her mom a photo, she thought the sand looked like piles of snow!  Yes, it was that white.  And beautiful.

We stayed in Loop A of the Fort Pickens campground, which has its own separate laundry, shower house, and dump station. A walking/biking trail leads to the much larger Loop B-E campground less than a half-mile away.

The highlight of our stay was the 9-mile bike ride from our campground to Pensacola Beach. Although the weather was chilly, that ride was a true bucket list experience. Blogging about the ride doesn’t do it justice. And, even though we made a pretty darn good video of the ride (which you really should watch), the video also falls short. That bike ride was just that spectacular.

Fort Pickens itself was an unexpected delight.  The Fort is located within walking/biking distance of the campground (~1.5 miles from Loop A to the Fort).  Large signs are scattered throughout the Fort to provide historical information on the Fort. Visitors can also use their phones to enjoy a numbered walking tour to learn details about the Fort.  We learned about the construction of the massive structure, its role in the Civil War, and its repurposing afterwards.  Neither Kasie nor I are huge history buffs, but seeing the Fort in person certainly made me more interested in Florida’s role in the Civil War in particular. And, I was able to satisfy my weird obsession of getting my photo taken with cannons. 

Biking along the beach at Fort Pickens

The only pseudo-negative to our stay at Fort Pickens was perhaps the weather.   Most of the United States, including Pensacola, was suffering from unusually cold weather such that it got down to the 30s on some nights.  That was all relative to us because it reached 0°F back home in Missouri.  The weather likely kept many folks away from the campground, which meant we pretty much had the beaches and Fort to ourselves.   In the end, I think that the cold weather actually a plus for our overall experience. We did not have to fight any crowds and could truly enjoy Mother Nature.  

Another pseudo-negative to Fort Pickens is that cell phone and internet coverage sucked. Much like the weather, perhaps that turned out to be a plus. We were forced to completely disconnect when in the RV at Fort Pickens — although we did venture out to a few breweries, which you can learn about in our next blog :-).

Other blogs/videos you might like on Pensacola:

Pensacola Song (Official Music Video) — A Classy Broads original!
Five Flags RV Park in Pensacola — A wonderful RV park!
Pensacola: Parks and Pelicans — Graffiti Bridge, Downtown Pensacola, and more!
Pensacola Breweries (Classy Beer Awards - Pensacola Edition) — We review nearly a dozen breweries in the area!