Best Western On The Beach Gulf Shores

I met my good friend Mark in Gulf Shores to mark the bookend of my trip. We had a great time with his family doing the normal Gulf Shores things like lots of fishing, talking and whatnot. I did get a few pictures here, but at this ...

... is still there and we are told that the hotel (which we didn't actually see because we were looking at the golf course across the road) had to be rebuilt after hurricane Ivan 2004 (they thought). The hotel has been there for close to a century and it was the first time it had sustained significant hurricane damage. We did stop at a lovely park and pier in Fairhope and then downtown to a fantastic shopping area of small stores. I couldn't ...

... than the ones in Florida. The landscape and vegetation are significantly different from that we have been traveling through to this point. Live oak trees and magnolias now became dominant, replacing the pines and palmetto of the Florida landscape. Anticipating that if we continued on we would be traveling through Mobile at evening rush hour we decided to find a place to stay just east of the city. In mapping out our ...

... mention the doll throws in apple butter and molassus sorghum with our warm rolls......ahhhh..... We were on our way and Foley has a few charming streets with antique shops and art galleries. We stopped in of course to the Stacey Rexall Drug Store and enjoyed a fantastic Key Lime Milkshake (with real limes). Big snowbird area- so we crashed a snowbird reception too- just to check things out and get a lay of the land. ....Although Im still ...

... After a quick unload and reload at Jimbo's house, along we went eastward an hour or so past the Florabama, to a fabulous little gem of an urban park, the Big Lagoon State Recreation Area. This is a state park (I think) in Perdido Key, which is a bit west of the Pensacola Naval Air Station. On the north side of the lagoon were the infamous Florida condo towers. The south side of the lagoon where we went was beautiful ...

I also went to Gulf Shores with my friends family on vacation only this one was about 1000 times better then the last. The beach was really nice and there was a lot of things to do in the area. The only thing that I didn't like about the beach was the fish. I usually go to the Atlantic Ocean for vacations with my family and this was ...

... SEEMED TO BE MORE PEOPLE AT THE BEACH BUT THE BEACH WAS NOT OVER-CROWDED. EVERYWHERE WE ATE WAS SO GOOD. WE ATE AT ALL OF OUR FAVORITE PLACES...CRACKER BARREL, CICI'S PIZZA, BUBBA'S, LAMBERTS, HAZEL'S. THEN, OF COARSE, WE ALL TOOK LITTLE SWEET HEART TO SCOOPS!!!! HUBBY MADE THE BEST BREAKFAST(HIS BISCUITS MELT IN YOUR MOUTH), OUR SON MADE A SHRIMP BOIL WITH NEW ...

... not make it to eat was Lambert's! Lord willing, we will get to eat there next time. We went back to Bear Point Marina and went on the Dolphin Cruise. This Dolphin Crusie was better than the last. The video clips are pretty good. Three days, for me, is just not a long enough! Anyway, on the way out the kids called us and told us they were going out to the bridge and take pictures of the birds and ...

... to be anywhere doing the kind of food we had in mind. <br><br>We've both recently read a John Grisham novel called "The Partner", about a lawyer based in Biloxi. It was quite interesting to see places featured in the book, like the Courthouse square, the road full of lawyers offices and even a restaurant called Mary Mahoney's. We don't think the lawyers eating there in their suits would be happy about us going in there in our shorts! <br><br>And so we decided to go ...

Terry had planned to play golf at several of the Robert Trent Jones courses in Alabama, the first of which was near Foley. After his first game, he was driving around and he discovered an Alabama State Park a couple of miles away, at Gulf Shores. It was less than a half mile from the Gulf of Mexico coast and had a few lakes where he could fish, etc. I think he only played one more round of golf nearby and the rest of the time he fished. We had a nice camp spot about ...