I am happy to tell you that last week, in sub-freezing weather with wind chills in the single digits, Mary Lynn and I spent two days packing the RV with clothes, food and great expectations of finding warm weather. Too cold to un-winterize the RV, we left Maryland with both heaters cranked up on high and the plumbing system still full of anti-freeze. Of course, MLA’s Christmas present was proudly attached to the top of the CR-V. Now if I can only remember it’s up there when approaching parking garages/low overhangs, etc. She loves that hot pink beach cruiser…
Regardless, we took off from our Maryland home (still for sale if you are interested) and as always, the joy of hitting the road in an RV descended on us like the ball in Times Square on New Years Eve. Within minutes we were cruising on down the road, laughing and having a great time. We must have looked like a couple of fools to everyone else stuck in a typical Washington DC beltway traffic jam. We were surrounded by frustrated drivers anxious to get home after a long day at work – and all the while MLA and I are laughing and grinning like a couple of kids cutting school. Even two cars broken down in the middle lanes of I-95 south of DC didn’t put a dent in our attitude.
I am somewhat sad to tell you there is no warmth to be found along the Atlantic coast – even Florida temperatures were in the 20’s. Heck, so far we have not made it out of the 30’s. All across Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and now Alabama, freezing cold weather has been our travelling companion.
No worries though – we know it will get better. Our destination is Casa Grande, Arizona, which is currently experiencing temperatures in the low 70’s (doesn’t that make your mouth water?") -- So it will get better.
When we left Maryland we travelled straight to Oak Ridge, NC to see our good friends Jack and Cathy. We had a terrific time with them however given the cold temperatures (and our frozen water pipes), we left the Greensboro area pretty quickly.
In Georgia, just outside of Atlanta, we stayed at the Stone Mountain resort and campground. Normally a beautiful, heavily forested resort, this trip it looked a little bit more like frozen tundra. You could tell,, even in this cold weather, that the views out of our front window would be spectacular once spring rolls around.
As I said, we are now in Red Bay, Alabama, home of Tiffin Motor Homes, where we are having some warranty work done on the RV. We were tempted to put the work off until warmer weather but who knows when we will be coming back this way. Our work is scheduled to begin tomorrow morning at 7 am sharp and should be completed by the end of the day or early the next day. And the local weather here in Red Bay is expected to hit the high 40’s/low 50’s by the end of the week. Yee Haa!
Today MLA and I took (re-took) the Tiffin factory tour and then crawled in and out of the new 2010 RV’s. Wow are they impressive – and each has an impressive price tag to keep it company. We love our current Tiffin however it would be nice to have a little more storage. Not sure I’m willing to pay for that extra storage but its nice to dream a little.
It’s always a sight to see all the huge RV’s (most are 40-45 feet long) move from the campground (really an old airport runway) into the service center. Diesels growling, big bodies swaying side-to-side, spinning in circles to navigate their way into one of the 50 service bays. I call it the Dance of the Elephants…
As soon as work on our RV is completed MLA and I will head to New Orleans to visit her sister Debbie and husband Richard assuming of course the weather warms up a little in New Orleans; it has been cold and freezing there for the last two weeks as well.
In any case, Arizona will soon thaw whatever & whomever needs thawing.
See Ya!
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