The
Black Warrior flows south into the Tombigbee, thence to historic Mobile Bay. Flows about 20 miles from my house.
In high school an insane friend of mine tried to drive a ski boat from Tuscaloosa to Mobile. He got about halfway there, hit a floating log at top speed and promptly sank.
A little trivia - the French settled first in Mobile, and they used to send their prisoners up the Black Warrior to a penal colony in Demopolis. Strange to drive through rural west Alabama and all of a sudden all the streets are French names.