One of our goals for this “quick trip” was to find warmer weather than what we had in northern Georgia, and we were successful—to a point. After settling into our campsite for a 7-night stay (pretty long time for us), our first venture out was to the beach at Gulf Shores. As we drove through Foley to get to the Gulf, I looked for a sign that said “Welcome to Gulf Shores,” but settled instead for the back of a police car to show where we are.
campground
Here’s the description from weather.gov about this hurricane: “September 15-16, 2020 Hurricane Sally made landfall in Gulf Shores, AL at 5am on Wednesday, September 16th as a strong Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph. Sally produced widespread wind, storm surge, and freshwater flooding across coastal AL and the western Florida Panhandle.” All over the area we saw the effects of this hurricane that still have to be cleaned up.
Lambert’s Cafe
The day it rained we decided to venture out for dinner. Lambert’s Café is well known for its servers who throw huge rolls to the customers while they’re waiting for their dinners. The entrees are served with plenty of side dishes that are famous in the South.
In 1942, Earl and Agnes Lambert borrowed $1500 ($23,119 today) from a friend and opened a restaurant with 5 employees. The café had a 9-stool counter and 8 tables to seat 41 visitors, and they served vegetables, meat, and dessert. Rationing during WWII made restaurant life difficult, and at times they went without meat.
While we were eating, even more servers brought by different sides that we could have as much of as we wanted. I wish we had been hungrier. My favorite was the fried potatoes and onions like my mom used to make on family camping trips when dad caught fish that day. Oh so good. With all these sides, we didn’t need dessert.
church like ours
Two years ago when we were in this area around the same time of the year, we went to this church and thoroughly enjoyed our time with this church family. Now they’ve changed the name to BayView (since they have a view of the bay), but the church family is just as wonderful. The church is like a grandchild of our church in Alpharetta (our church started a church in Florida that started this church), so everything was familiar.
lunch out
Our next post is all about the city of Fairhope on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay. Interesting background story about why I liked this village so much, so read on.
