Out n About in Alabama

An Easy drive from Biloxi today. Staying at the SKP park in Summerdale, nice park. The gulf beaches are spectacular and all the colorful house very picturesque. Notice on the pictures how white the sand is, it looks like snow, while its cold enough to snow, it is sand. After a full day of traveling we headed over to Lamberts Cafe in Foley and had some buns thrown at us. John had the fried Chicken, I had catfish the portions are more than plentiful and we had left overs, Yep, even John…. We found some wonderful restaurants while in Alabama, Bimini Bobs in Daphne not a chain restaurant owned by a local. The food is fresh and cooked and seasoned to perfection. The menu is mostly seafood with a little Caribbean flair. The coleslaw had mangoes in it really good. We also went to the original Oyster house in Mobile, The oysters we so good and so was the seafood gumbo. Both restaurants sit overlooking the bay.

We drove over to Pensacola to tour the National Aviation Museum at NAS Pensacola. Home of the Blue Angeles . GREAT museum, we had a tour of the flight line, and then took a guided tour of the museum. This is always fun to hear personal recollections'. One of the most interesting facts about the museum is that no tax payers $ are used for funding. One major contributor is the owner of Enterprise car rental- the story goes something like this…. Fellow joins the Navy and is a fighter pilot assigned to the USS Enterprise, after his tour of duty, opens up a car rental business and names the business after the ship he loved that is how Enterprise Car Rental got its name, then hears about the museum and donates 10 million $$$. as told by the tour guide. One last interesting bit of info- the restaurant in the museum Cubi Bay Cafe, This was an actual officers club in Cubi Bay Philippines until a volcano erupted and destroyed the base. When the navy went over to clean up they brought back what was left of the officers club tables, chairs, plaques, portions of the walls and the entirebar. Thus recreating the restaurant inside the museum. I suppose you could say it’s a museum inside of a museum.

That just about concludes our visit to Alabama's Gulf Coast, except to say we will be back BUT it will be during the heat of the summer. Its a shame its been to cold to really enjoy the beautiful beaches.