What a Ride!

Back in Lake Charles!

I had the roof rails painted on Friday and the upholstery guy at Tiffin came back early and looked at the puckered material on our dash. He said he would have to pull the dash to fix the pucker. I didn’t think it was worth that much trouble to fix the pucker, so I told him to don’t worry about it we will just live with it.

Also Friday night I saw a lady hauling clothes to the camp laundry and recognized her right away. We had met Robin and her husband Paul in Alaska back in the summer of 2009 and we also visited them at their home in Apollo Beach, Florida in February 2010. They had just come in to the campground and they were parked just across from us.

Left to right: Paul, Robin, Stacy and her father-in-law Charles.

Stacy had come with her 2 boys and her father-in-law to get some work done on her father-in-laws (new to him) Allegro Bus. Weston and Stacy’s 2 boys had fun running around the campground and going to Red Bay’s water park.

We left Red Bay Saturday morning and arrived in Lake Charles around 8:15 PM. It was a long day, but Weston was happy to be back in Lake Charles.

We will be here for a couple weeks for some dr. appts. and then we hope to take the grandkids camping like we did last year.

Until next time!

Red Bay Update

Yesterday, Tuesday, they got us into a bay to replace the roof rail radius cracks. Here is the one over the entry door on the passenger side.

Here is the on from the awning to the rear cap – passenger side.

Here they are cutting the complete driver side off.

That is the white Styrofoam ceiling edges that you see.

Today, Wednesday, they changed the rotten boards under the fresh, black and gray water tanks.

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My fresh water tank on its side waiting to be put back in.

Getting the last piece of wood out of the bay area.

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Slipping the new improved floor being put back in.

Starting to reseal the area around the tanks and door.

The fine tuning tools for putting the floor in the motorhome!

Just about done.

They started around 10:45 this morning and finished around 2:30 this afternoon. They said most of the repairs on the wet bay floor take a little longer, but mine went pretty smooth.

Tomorrow I will get the roof rails painted and I will have to wait until Monday to get the last of my warranty list finished. Apparently they only have one person to repair the upholstery here at the service center and he is off this week.

Until next time!

Red Bay Time!

We drove up the Natchez Trace from Hwy 82 in MS to Tupelo, MS. We stopped at some of the Historical Markers for Weston to learn a little history.

Weston on the actual Old Natchez Trace.

Weston wanted to pose next to the motorhome at one of the pullouts.

From Tupelo we drove up to Sherman, MS to Sherman RV where we bought our motorhome. Weston got to meet Karen the sales lady we purchased our motorhome from and I got a picture.

We arrived Friday afternoon in Red Bay and got set up and settled in. Friday night a rain storm blew through and dropped about 1” of rain in about 30 minutes. Saturday we met some of the our neighbors here at the Allegro Campground. One couple, Johnnie and Bobbie, from St. Gabriel, Louisiana was parked across from us. We visited with them and Weston really took a liking to them. Of course, they let him play with their Wii system and their iPad so I can see why he liked them.

Sunday, Weston and I went to the Red Bay Water Park and rode the water slides. It was very hot here in Red Bay, so that was a nice way to cool off.

Our appointment here in Red Bay is for Tuesday, but today they called me about 7:10 AM and woke me up. They wanted to know if we wanted to come in today rather than tomorrow. Of course, we said YES! So we got ready and moved the motorhome into one of the service bays. They fixed all the small things except for the material that is puckering on the front dash. The man that does all the upholstery was off this week. We will be going into one of the other bays tomorrow to repair either the wet bay floor or the roof rail radius areas that are showing cracks. I will know tomorrow which one it is.

While they were working on all our little items, Weston and I took the factory tour. I have been on the tour twice, but they have added the cabinet factory and the powerglide chassis area to the tour. I have pictures of those parts of the tour.

These are from the cabinet shop parts of the tour.

The long aisle full of all the different parts of the cabinet shop.

One of the motorhomes before being painted.

The transmissions lined up to be paired with the engines.

The front independent suspension.

The rear end of the chassis.

The chassis rails all stacked up.

The chassis after the welding shop and before the first stage of the production line.

A few more chassises. ( I guess that is a word)

After the tour we went back to the service center to check on the motorhome. They had finished with the small items and they had parked it back on our site, plugged in the electricity and put the A/C on. What service!!!

Tomorrow we might take the self-guided tour at the paint plant while they work on the motorhome.

Until next time!

Red Bay Bound!

Weston (one of our grandsons) and I left Lake Charles and headed toward Red Bay, AL to get some warranty work done on our motorhome.

Here is Weston working on his laptop while we are driving down the road.

We drove just north of Jackson, MS for the day and stayed at the only campground we could find that advertised a swimming pool. Of course, the information about the campground was not up to date and this is the swimming pool.

That’s right they filled it in and planted a garden. The owner did give us some fresh tomatoes and fresh cucumbers from his garden for supper! Weston is trying out the cucumbers!

We will get to Red Bay sometime tomorrow afternoon.

Until next time!