[IMG]http://static.dailycandy.com/images/pixel.gif[/IMG][FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, serif][SIZE=-2][B]May 30, 2007[/B][/SIZE][/FONT][IMG]http://static.dailycandy.com/images/pixel.gif[/IMG][FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, serif][SIZE=+1][COLOR=#000000][B]You Might Be a Redneck[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [IMG]http://static.dailycandy.com/images/pixel.gif[/IMG][URL="http://www.dailycandy.com/t/click/7/F161398/994567/2"][IMG]http://static.dailycandy.com/content/articles/30552/gulfshores.jpg[/IMG][/URL][FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, serif][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]The Gulf Coast of Alabama and Florida has sugar-white sand that squeaks beneath your feet and water so blue it?ll make you cry. Plus, it?s as cheap as PBR. So grab your bikini and cutoffs ? and leave your decorum at home. It ain?t called the Redneck Riviera for nothing. [B][URL="http://www.dailycandy.com/t/click/7/F161398/994567/3"][COLOR=#0000ff]Gulf Shores, Alabama[/COLOR][/URL] [/B]Hurricane Ivan smoothed some rough edges, and the view from your [URL="http://www.dailycandy.com/t/click/7/F161398/994567/4"][COLOR=#0000ff]Beach Club[/COLOR][/URL] balcony will take your breath away. (Catch it underneath an umbrella at ocean?s edge.) When you?re sick of sun, [URL="http://www.dailycandy.com/t/click/7/F161398/994567/5"][COLOR=#0000ff]Captain Skip[/COLOR][/URL] will motor you out on Wolf Bay and show you how to harvest shrimp, crabs, and oysters. Start the day with Frisbee-size pancakes and mounds of corned beef hash at [URL="http://www.dailycandy.com/t/click/7/F161398/994567/6"][COLOR=#0000ff]Tacky Jacks[/COLOR][/URL]. Hit the [URL="http://www.dailycandy.com/t/click/7/F161398/994567/7"][COLOR=#0000ff]Coffee Merchant[/COLOR][/URL] for lunch. (You?ve never had panini so light.) The unassuming [URL="http://www.dailycandy.com/t/click/7/F161398/994567/8"][COLOR=#0000ff]Sunset Cork Room[/COLOR][/URL] serves the island?s best dinner: Shrimp Tiffany and Anna?s Bananas. Don?t even think of going to bed sober: One bushwacker at the famed [URL="http://www.dailycandy.com/t/click/7/F161398/994567/9"][COLOR=#0000ff]Flora-Bama[/COLOR][/URL] and you?ll be off for a moonlight dip. [URL="http://www.dailycandy.com/t/click/7/F161398/994567/10"][B][IMG]http://static.dailycandy.com/content/articles/30552/rosemarybeach.jpg[/IMG][COLOR=#0000ff]Rosemary Beach, Florida[/COLOR][/B] [/URL]What?s lovelier than this carefully designed community? Until the hotly awaited Hotel Saba opens next spring, rent a cute carriage house or a five-bedroom ?cottage.? The waves will be steps from your door. Hopefully you picked up your personalized airbrushed car tag in Gulf Shores: This place is a titch more sophis. Score high-end home goods at Shabby Slips (850-231-4164) and Tracery (850-231-6755), toys and kiddie gear at Gigi?s (850-231-0110), and tropicalwear at Dunes (850-231-3602). Then what? Gather picnic provisions at Wild Olives (850-231-0065); rent a two-wheeler from Bamboo Bicycle Company (850-231-0770); and explore shady footpaths, boardwalks, and secret pathways. That?ll work up an appetite for a nap in a hammock and dinner at [URL="http://www.dailycandy.com/t/click/7/F161398/994567/11"][COLOR=#0000ff]Cafe Thirty-A[/COLOR][/URL]. [B][URL="http://www.dailycandy.com/t/click/7/F161398/994567/12"][IMG]http://static.dailycandy.com/content/articles/30552/panamacitybeach.jpg[/IMG][COLOR=#0000ff]Panama City Beach, Florida[/COLOR][/URL] [/B]There?s more to PCB than [I]MTV Spring Break[/I]. Like 27 miles of silky white sand (restored to perfection last year for $23.5 million). And cream-filled Long Johns from [URL="http://www.dailycandy.com/t/click/7/F161398/994567/13"][COLOR=#0000ff]Thomas Donut & Snack Shop[/COLOR][/URL]. Nothing tastes better on the beach as the morning sky turns pink. Or sleep in and feed the beast with a frittata at Andy?s Flour Power Bakery & Cafe (850-230-0014). Later, fill up on the fresh catch of the day at the just-opened [URL="http://www.dailycandy.com/t/click/7/F161398/994567/14"][COLOR=#0000ff]Barefoot Beach Club[/COLOR][/URL], where they say, ?no shoes, no problem.? Recover from the sun at the giant spa, salon, and fitness center at the [URL="http://www.dailycandy.com/t/click/7/F161398/994567/15"][COLOR=#0000ff]Bay Point Marriott[/COLOR][/URL]. And when you?re ready to call it a day, sleep tight at the lush [URL="http://www.dailycandy.com/t/click/7/F161398/994567/16"][COLOR=#0000ff]Edgewater Beach & Golf Resort[/COLOR][/URL]. You?ll be happier than a clam at high tide. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
