Mobile Travel and Tourism Guide

Another great morning and we are under a fog advisory. We are taking I-10 west to Mobile, Alabama to visit Battleship Memorial Park. It's about an hour drive and it's open from 8:00am to 5:00pm. The USS battleship Alabama was commissioned August 16, 1942. It is 680 feet in length and a width of 108 feet 2 inches. She is registered as 35,000 tons, but under battle conditions, she weighed in at well over 45,000 tons or 90 million pounds. Her assigned crew was 127 officers and 2,205 enlisted.&...

So after doing nothing in Savanah we started driving again and made it to Jacksonville Florida where we thought of going a little further south to Daytona for the possiblity of bike week but decided not to in the end it was the time limit thing.  We jumped on I-10 and proceded west making only one small detour to visit a Hard Rock Cafe in Destin Fla.  We got some dinner there and then poked around a nearby mall stopping by a Barnes and Noble one of my favorite stores and then we wer...

Just come see where I've been

Battleship Memorial Park was a wicked cool place to kill a few hours and that is exactly what we did.  You come down the drivway and there are planes and tanks and planes.  Once you park and go into the little visitors center and gift shop you buy your ticket wich is like 12 dollars for an adult wich isnt bad and then you step out the back door and head on over to the main attraction The USS Alabama.  The ship has been used in the TV show Unsolved Mysteries and the movie Under ...