July 30 – August 3, 2014 – Robertsdale, Alabama
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We left Carrabelle on Wednesday morning and drove west on Highway 98 along the coast of the Florida panhandle. We crossed into Alabama and are staying at Styx River Resort north of Robertsdale. Robertsdale is between Pensacola and Mobile and is about 30 minutes north of the coast. This is a nice resort and we have a large shady site. Thursday morning we drove to Mobile and visited Battleship Memorial Park where we toured the Battleship USS Alabama. The Alabama was commissioned on August 16, 1942 and is the sixth naval fighting ship to bear the name. She earned 9 Battle Stars, and shot down 22 enemy airplanes during World War II and was decommissioned January 9, 1947. The ship is 680 ft. in length with a width of 108 ft. 2 in. We were able to tour the main and upper decks as well as the lower decks. The USS Alabama self guided tour was better laid out than most of the other ships we have...