Louisiana Welcome Center — Attraction in Vicksburg

Wow am I proud to be a Louisiana native even though I recently moved to Georgia! We were on our way back for a visit and I said I prefer to stop at this rest stop then wait for a gas station to utilize the restrooms. I also needed a little stretch and walk around and saw that of course they had free Community Coffee. I had visited a r rest stop/welcome center entering Louisiana years ago coming from Florida and thought how beautiful, welcoming, and a great place to get an introduction to the state. They go above and beyond many many welcome centers I have visited in my travels to other states. So it's good to know that my home state is so willing to put forth this great effort for visitors. And in the end of course I had a wonderful cup of Community Coffee. It was hot fresh and had all the fixings 😁☕ oh and big honorable mention to the lady working the counter who asked me about myself, which I assume is for some type of census because she asked my zip code and how many people were visiting the rest stop. I don't know if they're trying to gauge whether or not it's worth having these things open but listen to me when I say it is worth the taxpayer funds. After the questioning she definitely was ready willing and able to help me find anything that I needed as well as a very cheerful disposition. Even though I've only been gone from home for a couple months it was great being back and that was the ideal...

I'm disabled and can't walk too far in hot humid weather. If I had known that the ladies restroom was so far from my vehicle and had no air conditioner, I would of took my chances at a gas station. The bathrooms floor and toilet in the handicap stall was filthy. I had to clean the toilet so I could use it. And moving around in a super hot n humid area was devastating to my health. Having asthma, I struggled to breathe while in there. It was so hot and humid in the ladies bathroom that I was drenched in sweat!! When I finally made it to my vehicle and started up the engine, this strange man approached my driver side window asking for help. When I told him that I couldn't help him, he went too 2 other women who were walking their dogs and a person in their vehicle as I was backing out of my parking space. Then he got in the passenger side of a Saturn Ion, a person was in the driver's side and proceeded to follow me in their vehicle to the highway. If they were following me for bad intentions, I can't say. But I will never stop at that rest area again! Unhealthy...

So my trip here was, like any other day, normal in a sense. Although, my first experience here was exhilarating, as would anyone would be when visiting a place for the first time. But overtime, that particular exhilaration began to dwindle, like when a particular product that has been overused over time. Although dwindling experience of a particular place isn't exemplary for a processed review, but for the most part, my time there was ok. The staff in charge have been taking good care of the place, and sanitary procedures have been kept in place, according to my observation. Now you see a good review won't be official if it doesn't articulate on the good and the bad, cause if a review only talked about the good things done in an establishment, that particular establishment would go on in oblivion, and never improve. Now on the subject of the Louisiana Welcome Center, like I said in the beginning, the Center is doing well...so far. However, the things that they need to work on are the restrooms, which happen to be the most essential part of a long journey well spent. The previous time I arrived, the restrooms were sort of unorganized, like the floors were a bit greasy, like they've not been washed overtime. This, I feel, needs to be addressed. This is pretty much all I have to say. To my readers, I love y'all.

Así que mi viaje aquí fue, como cualquier otro día, normal en cierto sentido. Aunque, mi primera experiencia aquí fue emocionante, como lo sería cualquiera al visitar un lugar por primera vez. Pero con el tiempo, esa euforia en particular comenzó a disminuir, como cuando un producto en particular se ha usado en exceso a lo largo del tiempo. Aunque la experiencia menguante de un lugar en particular no es ejemplar para una revisión procesada, pero en su mayor parte, mi tiempo allí estuvo bien. El personal a cargo ha estado cuidando bien el lugar y se han mantenido los procedimientos sanitarios, según mi observación. Ahora ves que una buena reseña no será oficial si no se articula sobre lo bueno y lo malo, porque si una reseña solo hablara de las cosas buenas que se hacen en un establecimiento, ese establecimiento en particular pasaría al olvido, y nunca mejorar. Ahora, sobre el tema del Centro de Bienvenida de Luisiana, como dije al principio, al Centro le está yendo bien ... hasta ahora. Sin embargo, las cosas en las que necesitan trabajar son los baños, que resultan ser la parte más esencial de un largo viaje bien aprovechado. La última vez que llegué, los baños estaban desorganizados, como si los pisos estuvieran un poco grasientos, como si no los hubieran lavado con el tiempo. Creo que esto debe abordarse. Esto es prácticamente todo lo que tengo que decir. Para mis lectores, los...