Long Beach was his particularly hard by Hurricane Katrina, but is gradually recovering. It is located centrally on the MS Gulf Coast, making access across the Coast easy; fast on I-10 and scenic on beach highway US-90. Long Beach is the home of the Gulf Park Campus of the University of Southern MS and Triton Industies (the world's second largest ATM manufacturer). Otherwise, Long Beach is considered the Coast's bedroom community, and Red Creek Inn was it's and the Coast's first bed and breakfast. The Coast had advanced to having twenty bed and breakfasts, prior to Katrina, but that storm left only five bed and breakfasts standing. Red Creek Inn is the oldest of those remaining. Long Beach is poised, due to its locationa and size, to become more prosperous than ever, being close to the "action" of Biloxi, but not too close. New Orleans is just an hour away and Mobile about an hour and fifteen minutes. Hattiesbur, the home of USM, is about an hour north of the Coast, and there are several parks along the way and the Desoto National Forest is just north of Gulfport, where Trinity Marine builds 100' plus mega yachts and the Wal-Mart has been the world's busiest several different years. The major port importing bananas is at Gulfport and a mojor navy shipyard is at Pascagoula. On the other end of the Coast, toward New Orleans, is the Stennis Space Center and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's head- quarters. There is much to see and do, on the beautiful and rebounding MS Gulf Coast.