Spent the morning on the USS Alabama, a WWII battleship moored in Mobile bay. Very interesting but swarming with some very large people. There`s no way some of them would have fitted through some of the hatchways. Drove along the coast road into Florida, stopping at Pensacola for a walk around the city. Spending the night at Panama City. Gorgeous view of the ocean from my hotel room right on the beach.

Miles driven: 167

Left New Orleans and headed east along the gulf coast. Again the devastation was incredible. Houses of wood reduced to splinters, houses of brick reduced to rubble. Upturned boats alongside the highway. Such contrast to the beautiful, and incredibly calm, ocean on the other side of the road. Now in Mobile, pronounced mo-beel, Alabama. Saw a gorgeous sunset from Dolphin Island, at the entrance to Mobile bay.

Miles driven: 242