Camp Red Bay - Tiffin Service Center

Ours is the 2nd one on the left. This is just 1 row of 4.

Well, here is what it looks like at "Camp Red Bay" which is now officially called the Allegro Service Center. At one time this was a small plane airport that Tiffin bought and put a couple of large buildings on the site for service bays. That is why is is also referred to as the runway.  Red Bay Alabama which is in the northwest corner of Alabama and about an hour northeast of Tupelo Mississippi. All these Tiffin motorhomes lined up on an old runway waiting for their turn to get into a service bay. We were here primarily to get 5 windows replaced, the dual pane had failed and the interior of the dual pane turned white and you could no longer see out of it, and to get the microwave vented to the outside.

The Sunshine Dog Food factory is about a mile away and they make dry dog food that is packed in bags. When the wind changes to just the right direction you will smell the dry dog food and it is not subtle at all, its really obvious. The factory lets Tiffin owners use their scales to weigh their motorhome. Ours weighed 11,000 for the front axle and 19,300 for the rear axle for a total of 30,300. Our Buick Rainier weighed 5000 with me in the driver seat and a bunch of stuff we just bought at Walmart, so we have a total of about 35,000 pounds going down the road.

Then we talked to Chris Berry and found that if we were willing to extend our visit to Red Bay another 10 days through the July 4th shutdown that Chris could work us in. So we spent a total of 3 weeks here instead of the 7-10 days we originally planned. But now the motorhome has much more storage and feels much roomier now that the booth and the sofa are gone. Now that it is done and we have spent a lot of time in it, we really enjoy the new arrangement. Very comfortable and things in the motorhome are a lot more accessible.

Temperature averaged around 95 degrees the whole time we were here. The asphalt just soaks up the sun and it really feels like an oven when you step outside the motorhome.

One of the small local places we liked eating at was Wayne's Catfish Haven in Russellville, Al about 20 min drive from Red Bay. For fried fish, it was cooked really well, not oily and they must clean or replace the oil quite often. We got the combo plate and split it, plenty of food: oysters, scallops, shrimp and of course catfish(filet or whole).  Here is a picture of the interior of the place. The roof area on the little houses on the wall was used as advertising for local companies. This placed was crowded around lunch time so we came back at 3pm for lunch. I was told by others at Camp Red Bay that it was crowded for dinner too.

Wayne's catfish haven