I plan to visit Alabama one day -- what should I do there?

July 28, 2020, 04:21 PM

The USS Drum Submarine.

Do not miss it if go to the USS Alabama. It's sitting right next to it. I enjoyed it as much or more. You can go through it and all the innards amazed me. All plumbing and wiring... the dials and gauges and brass! I can't imagine 70 plus crew in that thing for extended periods.

Google image search gives an idea...

Link

July 28, 2020, 04:37 PM

redleg2/9

"So, what would you suggest in Alabama?"
Stop for gas and then keep driving through.

July 28, 2020, 04:39 PM

charlie12

Ask them if they like LSU

July 28, 2020, 05:41 PM

bossman

Another vote for the CMP in Anniston AND The Berman Museum of History also in Anniston.

July 28, 2020, 06:37 PM

ZSMICHAEL

Some good trash talking about Bear Bryant is always fun. Making fun of their Southern accent is really appreciated as well as asking whether Deliverance was filmed nearby. (Just kidding).

July 28, 2020, 07:04 PM

x0225095

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Originally posted by bossman:
Another vote for the CMP in Anniston AND The Berman Museum of History also in Anniston.

CMP Talladega Marksmanship Park....finest shooting range in the country. Actually located in Talladega though the depot where the garands, etc are processed/sold is in Anniston.

https://thecmp.org/ranges/tall...a-marksmanship-park/

July 29, 2020, 12:16 AM

YellowJacket

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Originally posted by TigerDore:
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Originally posted by YellowJacket:
....Alabama is a lot like the rest of the deep south though it probably doesn't have any one thing as unique as it's neighbors....

Thou speaketh from thine ignorance, kemosabe.

26% of all the flowing water in the United States flows in or along the borders of Alabama. It is considered the second most geographically diverse state in the contiguous 48. And it is #5 overall in biodiversity.

And the beaches are "pretty good"? Well, I guess the beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, but the sugar white, quartz sand beaches that stretch from Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, Alabama to St.George Island, FL are unique in the United States. The crystal clear, turquoise to almost Caribbean blue waters combine with that sand to make these beaches the most beautiful in the continental US in my opinion.

So the beaches are just like panhandle Florida like I said? So they're not actually unique?

I just designed and built a hotel in Gulf State Park in Gulf Shores. I'm not ignorant if the area. It's a nice beach. It's not nicer than any of 30A in Florida.

Also, in number of species, Alabama is 5th. Georgia and Florida are 6th and 7th respectively. So, like I said, nothing special over its neighbors. Fact if the matter is that most of Alabama has an nearly exact analog to something in Georgia.

July 29, 2020, 02:13 PM

slabsides45

Yellowjacket, I love the pics and know the area well enough to know some of the structures in the pics, but I have to admit that you cherry picked some pretty good tides for those shots. Generally the Gulf Shores/Orange Beach area has a little more of the Mobile Bay silt/sludge that makes the water a bit less green than what we see when we go down to Pensacola Beach or (more reliably) Destin/San Destin. That said, we are currently looking at vacation homes, and the GS/OB area comes up first on our list d/t proximity to Memphis and familiarity.