Mobile Alabama

pinacolada lover · Post by **pinacolada lover** » May 16, 2007 10:54 pm

What can you folks tell me about Mobile. I was looking at it on the net. Any web site suggestions.

pojo · Post by **pojo** » May 28, 2007 5:18 pm

Here is the best site for Mobile

www.mobilebay.org

Things to see... USS Alabama
You are about an hour away from Dauphin Island (SW side) and Gulf Shores (SE side)...

PJ · Post by PJ » May 29, 2007 11:25 pm

You have to see the Alabama, that's #1 on any trip to Mobile. The Mardi Gras museum is small but very nice, a great history of the celebration and tons of king/queen costumes. When I was there we got a personal tour by the curator.

Bellingrath Gardens is beautiful, but now that it is summer it will be past the big peak of azeleas in bloom. Pensacola isn't too far away and the Museum of Naval Aviation at NAS P'cola is a great stop if you are into that sort of thing. Several of the old mansions are available to tour - Oakleigh comes to mind right off the bat.

Museum of Mobile is really interesting, and the Explorium is a nice science museum geared mostly to kids with a lot of hands on exhibits, but it also has travelling shows - Dead Sea Scrolls were there; I think the touring exhibit now is about life in Pompeii and includes some of the plaster body casts of the victims of Vesuvius.

aeroparrot · Post by **aeroparrot** » May 30, 2007 10:04 pm

I think the USS Alabama is not too far from there too (on the other side of the bay from the city if I remember correctly). There is an exit on I-10 for it.

OystersandBeer · Post by **OystersandBeer** » May 31, 2007 9:46 am

Check out live music at the Soul Kitchen

pojo · Post by **pojo** » June 1, 2007 10:54 am

Pensacola is about an hour away to the East...
Biloxi (Las Vegas) is about an hour away to the West...

RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » June 1, 2007 11:12 am

and the Dew Drop Inn, on Louiselle and Old Shell Road is the home of a good cheeseburger.