On the Road Again - Southwest Trip 2015

On the Road Again...Southwest Trip 2015

      We finally managed to get ourselves out of Indianapolis on Monday, January 26. We drive to a campground south of Nashville to spend the night - there were exactly 6 units in the campground. We were back on the road Tuesday morning at first light  headed for Gulf Shores, Alabama. We have reservations for one week here at the state park which turns out to be a very nice place. They have 496 campsites here with lots of amenities available. The weather has also been better than we expected it to be for January.  

     We have spent our days sightseeing and exploring the area.  We made a trip  to visit Fort Morgan, built in 1833 on the western tip of Fort Morgan Peninsula-guarding the eastern side of the entrance to Mobile Bay. There are also large oil drilling wells offshore there that are easy to see from the fort area. We had no idea that the oil wells were so close to shore in this area. You can not see them from the beach in Gulf Shores which is nice. You can see Dauphin Island  which is located on the Western side of the Mobile Bay entrance with Fort Gaines.

 

     We also made a trip to Pensacola to see the National Naval Air Museum on Naval Air Station Pensacola. This is a must see air museum- right up there with the one at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, OH. On our way back to Gulf Shores we stopped at the famous Flora-Bama - one of the last great American Roadhouses, home of the annual mullet Toss Festival, the Gulf Coast's greatest beach party . We have also taken daily beach walks on the large beautiful beach here and hiked on the trails here daily. We seem to spend every day outside doing something which we love. We have eaten at several good local seafood restaurants and all of the seafood has been delicious. 

      We will visit with an high school friend of Mark's in Mobile before we head on West to New Orleans.