Finished at Newmar service center.

 Monday 8 January 2023

   The big day arrived! Very, very early in the morning.  The instructions say the service tech will be out for the coach between 6:00 and 7:30 am. Our guy (Brain) was out just after 6.  We almost made it the coach was running but we had the slides to bring in.  Cold and windy.  Brain went over the work requests and by 6:30 we were sitting in the Newmar lounge, check in time at the hotel was not until

3pm.  We had Rudy and he was not allowed out of the pet lounge, so we had to take turns walking around😒. This place is really nice, only 5 years old and has the latest equipment. Just one item is the scaffold that hangs from the posts that start at the ceiling, they pull a coach in lower the scaffold and back to work in minutes. Next was waiting.  Diane went to get us a breakfast sandwich. And we waited. After lunch we went to the hotel, checked in and I returned to Newmar to get the days briefing and picked up a few food items for in the hotel. The water leak they suspected was the shower drain and they fixed it. One item off the list. Back to the hotel Diane went for Chinese and we ate in the room then played a couple games of farkle. 

Tuesday 9 January 2023

   Rudy woke us up with the noise he heard (6am). Looked out we had an inch or two of snow and very windy. Yogurt for breakfast before I headed to Newmar to talk with Brain.  Each time we talk there is

The Moho in shop.

the good news, bad news update. Good news seal on the slide didn't need replacing, bad news, we still have a water leak.  And several other things actually went according to plan.  Seems every new item is 600 dollars. but what do you do.  By now we had rain and the wind was a howling, just in time for Diane to go pick up lunch (wings) from the Hunters Hideaway, they were pretty good. After lunch I go back to Newmar to check in.  Most of the other items were going smoothly. We need to approve a new part for the heating system, you guessed it $600.  Back to the hotel. Being in the hotel is bad enough but with the weather you can't even walk outside at all. We are having so much fun we decided to stay another day waiting for the weather to clear some. Left overs for dinner, a bully game of farkle (Diane won) 3 games of sequence (Diane won).

Wednesday 10 January 2023

   Well, no snow today but cold, cloudy, with a fine mist. 😔 I don't know how long it has been since we had a nice sunny day. After breakfast (bagels from the hotel) Diane headed over to Service center for computer training. Before the training started she talked to Brain, he told her the Moho was finished, but made arrangements with him, since we were staying in the hotel another night that the Moho could stay inside until we picked it up Thursday morning. And off to class she goes.

 

Older but a nice
hotel anyway.

  Meantime back at the hotel I'm having coffee watching reruns of Andy Griffith with Rudy, he jumps up looking around. About the same time I noticed a very foul odor, I start looking around and our heating unit was smoking. 😕😕I quickly unplugged it and notified the front desk. After checking the heater out. They would have to move us to another room. I figured if we moved it would be back to the Moho.

    Diane came back, we threw everything in the car and headed back to Newmar. Found Brain gave him the update and ask if could bring the Moho out for us. We hadn't paid the bill yet, but he pulled it out into the camping area.  I went to fill up with fuel, returned put the ladder rack and ladder back on the Moho and secure it.  Diane went to the grocery store. She returned, backed the car in our spot I backed the Moho in so we could hook it up. First time to tow the car! By the time we unloaded the car, returned everything to its place in the Moho and sat down we were mentally and physically exhausted.  

Thursday 11 January 2023

   Same old weather today, 33 degrees and drizzle. We are leaving anyway trying to beat an artic front moving in.  We were ready to roll at 8:30 or at least we were until Diane went to set the car up for towing.  Seems we have conflicting instructions on what to do.  After some hair pulling and aggravation we called the hitch place and figured it out. Cloudy and very windy we headed  out.!😙  We drove down south on route 31, a nice 4 lane road but no rest areas. Eventually I had to pull over on the side of road to use the bathroom.😐 They really could use a rest area! 

First time towing
the Equinox!

   We rolled on down the road, around Indianapolis, Diane got us onto route I-69. Well the computer forgot to tell us it was future I-69. The first 30 miles all under construction.  Red lights, one lane sections, a couple cattle shoots to go through and no rest areas! What is with this state. By now we are about starved.  Diane finds a Walmart just off the next exit.  We had to through 3 round abouts into a residential section and then we were there. We took a nice lunch break and believe or not the sun started shinning and the sky's cleared. Oh Yea.

   Back on the road. we pulled into the Evansville 4H complex and campground at 3pm (central time).  It was a long day 310 mile.  Rudy was so good, but we took him for a walk and he wouldn't get back in the Moho. Had to pick him up. A nice evening sunny and almost 50 degrees.

He wasn't getting
back in the Moho!!

Friday 12 January 2023

   The rain started about 2am with a very loud rumble of thunder.  After that we both tossed and turned all night.  Good news we aren't moving today.  Had a nice breakfast got some supplies from the grocery store.  Mostly we worked on trying to make arrangements to camp in Memphis, spend some time with Monique and kids and still get out of town before the snowstorm hits. Planning the rest of the trip south is difficult with the continuing weather changes (snow, wind, ice).  With some almost for certain, perhaps, maybe and if nothing changes 😁😃we have a plan. The rain quit around 3 just enough time to get packed and hooked up for tomorrow.