Don't forget the beaches: Mobile Bay's true grits are only one of its attractions | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | United States Travel | Dallas Morning News

Don't forget the beaches: Mobile Bay's true grits are only one of its attractions | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | United States Travel | Dallas Morning News: "MOBILE, Ala. – Somewhere in bureaucrats' heaven, several are looking down on the Alabama Gulf Coast and kicking themselves.

Not long after the Civil War, Florida agreed to sell a certain expanse of gleaming white sand beach in its northwestern arm to Alabama. Cost? A million bucks.

Officials in Alabama quibbled over the price, opponents of the plan judged the land to be 'a sand bank and gopher region' and lawmakers in Alabama put off a deal. The offer died of dithering."