Mobile AL confuses the heck out of me, going to FL

[usregimechange]

What is the best way to get through Mobile and into FL?

[Syncronaut Seven]

1. Omaha?

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[A HERETIC I AM]

2. Why confused? From the north, I65 to I10. from the west, I 10 Eastbound

http://map.rmservers.com/map?r=IMAG%7C%25PD%3D492,292%25LL%3D30%2E686331,%2D88%2E053139%25ZM%3DM49987%2E20%25LLICON%3DIcon4,30%2E686331,%2D88%2E053139,,Font11,R%7C%25MS%3DB%7C%7C&d=75&t=mn&z=6&id=RMC&tid=1281314207.1115962970.712293&fix=1&h=6CDF572CEC2FE350AA42DC446D1B2F55


No big deal at all.

BTW...the Alabama Battleship Memorial is pretty neat. If you have time, i recommend stopping

[southlandshari]

3. You are right - it is VERY confusing

if you are coming from Mississippi on 98 - is this the route you are taking?

The best thing to do - and it is counterintuitive, which is why it is confusing - is to drive into Alabama and the Mobile city limits on 98 East. You'll pass a bunch of fast food joints and strip malls. Look for the interstate exchange, and when you get there, take I-65 North, towards Montgomery/Birmingham, even though it feels like the wrong way to go. You'll go a few miles on I-65 North before the exit for the I-165 bypass - take that off to the right, and you'll start to curve around back towards Mobile. That road narrows down a bit and takes you straight through a mile or two of downtown Mobile, past the Civic Center, through the tunnel under Mobile Bay and straight out to I-10 towards Pensacola. Right after you go through the tunnel, watch carefully for the I-10 exit, it is another that is easy to miss.

Hope that helps. I was working from memory, as I don't have a map handy. But I've made that drive many, many times, and that is by far the quickest and easiest way to go!

[usregimechange]

4. Yes, coming in on 98, that helps bunches! Thanks!

[southlandshari]

5. Enjoy the beach!

At least I hope fun in the sun is what is waiting for you in Florida. It took me several trips to get this route right, and I remember being very frustrated by Mobile (the city of my birth) every time!

[liberalmike27]

6. I'd

Have to agree, it is exceedingly simple. IF you are coming from the West or the East I-10 passes right through, you don't even have to get off the road. Coming down i-65 runs right into I-10. Easy as pie, though not as tasty.

I live in Mobile, it has its good points and its bad points, but I'd say it is one of the best cities, Huntsville being the other one.

[misanthrope]

10. Mobile is intensely idiosyncratic...

...a strange place with a very interesting and layered history. One of the older towns in America, it has a lot of Southern Gothic traditions and mores. "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" could have taken place in the town which is like a cross between Savannah and New Orleans.

It can take many years to learn the socio-political structures around here and why things work the way they do.

Mobile is also known as "The City of Perpetual Potential" and deservedly so. There's a heartbreaking litany of squandered opportunity in its annals.

If you're a history or sociology buff, it's a gold mine.

[misanthrope]

7. Why don't...

...you go to Mapquest?

[southlandshari]

8. Maybe because

he got the directions here two days ago. Jeez.

[misanthrope]

9. They didn't say...

...when they were leaving or passing through.

Besides, I would have told someone coming from Moffett Road to head south on I-65 to I-10 west. The I-165 exit is easier to miss than the southern terminus of I-65. And it can also be a real bitch to merge with traffic just before the Wallace Tunnel, as you do coming up from Water St./I-165.

Personally, I'd continue down Moffett to Spring Hill (through scenic Crichton), then to downtown, through the Bankhead Tunnel, and then get on the Bayway, but I'm not going to tell a stranger to do that.

[southlandshari]

11. Well, if he had used MapQuest as you suggested,

he would have gotten the same directions I gave him.

http://www.mapquest.com/directions/main.adp?go=1&do=nw&rmm=1&un=m&cl=EN&ct=NA&rsres=1&1ahXX=&1y=US&1a=&1c=Lucedale&1s=MS&1z=&2ahXX=&2y=US&2a=&2c=Pensacola&2s=FL&2z=

:shrug:

[misanthrope]

12. Whew!...

...Glad to know I'm aware of the ins-and-outs of the thoroughfares and drivers in my town better than some computer program in a server located in God-knows-where.

[southlandshari]

13. Then I'd suggest

not pointing people asking innocently for directions in your town (which is also my hometown) to a "computer program in a server located in God-knows-where".

Just smile and give directions next time. Show some Southern hospitality!

:D

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