Mobil Alabama

[tom___betty]

We will be traveling thru Mobil Alabama Memorial Day. What can we expect traffic to be going thru the tunnel ? Have been told it is awful on holidays.

[Swedish_Steel]

I agree, Felix's Fish Camp is excellent, Navy Banker.

A quarter mile to the East on the opposite side of the road is another great restaurant called The Bluegill.

The Bluegill is a pretty casual place with good food and a huge deck off the back with a stage. They have live music most nights. On the down side, if it is VERY hot or VERY cool, the deck is not fun.

[navybanker]

Reocommend eating at Felix's Fish Camp just east of USS Alabama. There is room to park RV. We always stop there passing through.

[Swedish_Steel]

If you have the time I recommend a stop at the USS Alabama museum, which is located at the first exit after leaving the tunnel if you are traveling Eastbound.

For a very modest fee you can take self guided (but very well designed) walking tours of the USS Alabama itself. The ship has three color coded tour routes that conduct visitors from the bridge all the way down into one of the magazines. Your entrance fee also gets you into a nice (but small) aviation museum and the USS Drum. The Drum is a highly decorated WWII diesel submarine.

To do the park/museum justice you need to set aside at least two or three hours.

Safe travels.

[NORM_WADDELL]

The only usual traffic problem is on Friday about 5 p m when
traffic leaves Mobile for the Gulf Shores AL coastal area.
If you are traveling DURING Memorial day, I expect you will
have no problem. Even the usual Friday p m 'jam' is only
a delay of a few minutes., and that's EAST bound only.

PM me more details of time and direction and I will comment
further.

If you are east bound, stay out of the left hand lane prior
to the tunnel.
It disappears before the tunnel. The #2 lane becomes the
tunnel left lane, and the #3 lane becomes the tunnel right
hand land, which is what you want.

I expect you to have no problems.