Home...But Not For Long

We got back from our long trip the afternoon of August 9 th. The first "Long Trip" we just completed covered 6,172 miles. We really enjoyed very mile of it too. We left the next morning for our Good Sam Chapter camp out at Gulf Shores, AL. One of my friends asked me, "if you've just gotten home and you're leaving again, why did you come home? Good question.

We had a good time at Gulf Shores with out friends from the Heart of Dixie Ramblers Good Sam Chapter, the food and fellowship was great. We had 18 rigs at the camp out.

We were getting ready to leave on Sunday morning when I noticed a big crack on the lower left side of the windshield, it looked like a "stress" crack. I have no idea what caused it but I was afraid to drive it so we spent another night. Monday I took it to the Monaco Dealer in Robertsdale to be checked out. The service manager confirmed what I thought, it was a stress crack. The dealer in Dothan ordered a new windshield that day and said they would call when they got it in. We drove back to Montgomery with no problems at all.

Emerald Coast RV in Dothan called me Monday August 21st to let me know the windshield had arrived. They made arrangements to have the windshield installed and we took it down on Wednesday, August 23rd. On the way down we were driving on a real narrow road when a lady was crossing a bridge and came over into part of my lane. I moved over as far as I could. There was a sign post leaning over into my lane and the right mirror hit the sign and demolished the mirror. At least no one was hurt and there was no other damage to the coach. Thank goodness the dealer had a mirror in stock and was able to get it installed while the windshield was being installed.

We drove back to Montgomery to rest up before our next trip which is to Gadsden, AL Hey, we're retired and we can't be expected to do too much at a time.