If you’re feeling truly unhinged, take the Sunshine Skyway Bridge from St. Petersburg toward Tampa. It’s a beautiful, towering monument to human audacity—and also a ten-minute detour that makes you feel like you’re driving into a clouds’ mouth. The bridge is nearly 4 miles long and 200 feet high. Don’t look down. I did, and I’m pretty sure a dolphin flipped me off too.
Fun fact: the bridge’s cables are wrapped in enough steel to build two Eiffel Towers. But more importantly, it has a rest stop with bathrooms that smell like a salty ghost. Stop only if you have to, and bring hand sanitizer the size of a child.
