Roberstdale, Alabama

We are heading to our campsite for two nights in Robertsdale, Alabama. There is a 77 mile stretch of Mississippi we are driving through on the way to Alabama.

Mississippi

We decided we wanted to stop in Mississippi so we stopped at a rest area to... well lets just say rest for a couple minutes. Now we can say we have been in Mississippi.

Rest Area

After a few minutes stop we continued towards Alabama.

Sweet Home Alabama

Our campground is called Wilderness RV. It is an RPI campground so it costs us just $10.00 a night. It was about 25 miles past Mobile, Al. We chose to stay in the pull through sites which were very close together, but there are no trees overhead so we would not have any issues with our rooftop satellite. For just a couple nights this is what we prefer.

Wilderness RV

On the way in to the campsite we saw a sign for Lambert's Cafe.

Lambert's Cafe

We had seen Lambert's Cafe on TV on one of the food shows, maybe Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives or one of those type of shows. They are known for their yeast rolls. It sounds weird but they throw them to you, sometimes from across the room. You can see from my picture their web address is www.throwedrolls.com,

Throwed Rolls

You order you meal and then they constantly bring around the pass arounds which consist of the throwed rolls, apple butter, black eyed peas, mac and tomatoes, fried okra, fried potatoes (my favorite!), cabbage.

I ordered the Chicken Fried Steak and Patty ordered the Meatloaf. Notice that Patty's meatloaf was a whole meatloaf, not just a few slices of meatloaf!

Great Food!

Needless to say we took about 3/4 of our diner home for the next night and they even gave us more rolls and potatoes to take home!

The next day we drove back to Mobile to the USS Alabama battleship. You do a self guided tour that actually takes all day.

USS Alabama

There are three tours, the Green, Red and Yellow. You can start with anyone you want. They give you a paper that describes each stopping point.

Tours

You will do a lot of climbing on these tours in fairly small areas. We have done tours of other retired ships, but this is by far the most complete!

Ladders

When will Patty learn? She keeps locking me up and I keep coming back for more! LOL!

In the Brink!

Thes are some big guns!

Big Guns

As part if the tour you can also view the USS Drum a 1941 submarine.

USS Drum

The sailors who ran this sub must have been small, and not claustrophobic! Look how small the doorways are!

Small Quarters

The periscope was still working. You had to climb up a ladder to get into a small area to use it. The ladder was made for people with small shoes, not size 12 like mine, but I still went up with Patty.

Patty on the Periscope

We went into the Plane hanger and looked at the planes and then decided we were tired and hungry. We had seen a commercial on TV for a fast food chain called Krystal's Burgers. They are small slider burgers similar to White Castle Burgers. They have a special going for 3 Sliders, fries and a drink for $2.99. We liked these better then White Castle. Thought they were more filling and taste better.

Krystal Burgers

We drove the next day to Quincy, Florida.

Florida

We stayed in a park behind a gas station. You actually pay at the gas station and then go park in your spot. I didn't take a picture since we didn't even uphook from the truck. I got this picture from the internet and acutally this looks better then it was. It has rained a lot around here so the grass had gotten a little muddy. Wasn't a problem for us as we have a 4x4, but it didn't even feel we needed it here. This is a Passport America so we pay 1/2 price. It's OK for an overnight, otherwise I probaby wouldn't stay.

Beaver Lake RV

Well that's it for today. Next stop is Orlando and Disney.

God Bless you,

Brian and Patty