Bob Carden at www.washingtonpost.com, in a June 15 travel piece, recalls the occasion 21 years ago when he drove to the Alabama beaches to visit his future in-laws at for the first time. The beaches were looking good to him when he spotted the Discount Bible Factory Outlet in Gulf Shores. An admitted lefty Democrat, Carden told his fiancée, “I don’t think I belong here.” But he’s come to love those beaches. “The scents, scenes and sounds of Gulf Shores are a tempting and lively cocktail,” according to Carden,  a Washington-based documentary filmmaker.