Dutton, AL - Toomsuba, MS
7/Apr/24
Miles Traveled 245
Trip Total 787
Travel Time 4:25
States visited:FL, GA, AL Mississippi
Today we left Wellness Ways and headed to Toomsuba Mississippi where we stayed at a Harvest Host, Simmons-Wright Company. While Toomsuba is not a "destination" it is directly on our route and it puts us less than two hours from our next stop.
On our way we stopped at a Petro Travel Center. We chose Petro because we all needed a dump station to empty our holding tanks. I had checked the Pilot Travel Centers on our route and none of them had a dump station. While the Petro was not advertised as being RV Friendly, it was very easy to get get to both the fuel pumps and the dump station. The only problem was the dump station did not work very well. Normally once we hook up the hoses, it takes two to three minutes to dump each tank. Here it took about 20 minutes. It kept backing up, and I could only open the valve a little bit. What really sucked about the dump station not working, was 3 miles down the road, the rest stop had a free dump station.
While Harvest Host are great, they do not offer any hookups (Water, Sewer or Electric). We can normally go between three and four days without hookups, and while we had electric and water at Wellness Ways, we really needed to dump our holding tanks.Other than the Interstate 20/59 being like a washboard overall the trip was very easy. When we arrived at our Harvest Host, we were the only one there. We knew that they were closed, and had instructions for parking. We had two options for parking, the first in a very unlevel grass lot right next to the building and the second was a paved road adjacent to a cemetery. We decided on the road.
Simmons-Wright is a general store that was established in 1884. The property consist of the General Store, a warehouse, cotton gin, seed house, outhouses and several other buildings as well as the cemetery. The cemetery has graves from the late 1800's to now. The general store looks like some of the merchandise is from when they opened. While they have a small section of modern stuff most of it is not. They also have a "country restaurant" that receives great reviews from other travelers but looking around none of us were brave enough to eat there.
Monday when we head out we will be heading to Jackson MS to watch the eclipse.
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