Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Boondocking, day 2

We arrived in Iuka, Mississippi, on Monday afternoon. We drove to Waterway Plastics, which is a Tiffin owned fiberglas company which made our tub/shower enclosure. It has a crack and it's been getting worse. In addition, the front panel on our generator was quite thin and Terry wanted it beefed up. They pulled us in to a slot on their loading dock and they began work immediately on the panel.
The gal who would fix the shower came in to look at it. It was close to closing time and she said she would be there at 7 a.m. Tuesday. We spent an uneventful night boondocking right there until 4:30 a.m. when a semi arrived to deliver steel. We weren't in his way and he eventually shut off his engine as he had to wait for the workers to arrive to offload.

Stephanie came at 7 a.m. and began the process of fixing the tub. The longest part was waiting for the stuff to cure. It wasn't a bad crack. . . did not go through all the layers, and now you cannot even tell where the crack was. She did an excellent job.

At noon we were on our way down here to Red Bay for what we thought was our appointment. Seems they don't have appointments. . . it's first come, first served and this is their busiest time with snowbirds coming back north. The service manager promised he would try and get us in to get the windshield and awning fixed. We will probably be back here in June after the Pace reunion to have some of the other stuff fixed. He said there would be little waiting at that point.

We are in their dry camping area awaiting a campsite which should be today. We have met a lot of other people . . . all Tiffin owners and we are a happy lot!

We are getting ready to ride the bikes into Red Bay and pick up our mail.

Till next time. . .

Dale

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi there,
We're not quite as content as you guys. We were towed 120 miles yesterday to Freightliner Odessa. Our air system went kaput (we've been to three Freightliner Svc Points without resolution). Aargh! High winds expected from here to New Mexico tomorrow. So I guess we "live" in Odessa for a few days. Can't travel without brakes and suspension. Happy Trails!

Dale said...

Susan and Jack,

Bummer. So sorry you're having trouble. Hope you get it fixed this time. We did just get moved to a campsite, so if by chance they don't get us into a service bay in another week, we will probably head north to the rally and do this in June. At least we have nothing serious wrong like you guys.

Good luck.