We picked up the trailer yesterday at Camping World in Byron, GA. Many thanks to Andy the service manager and Bob the parts specialist. They got us back on the road in 17 days, and at no cost to us. Camping World in Tampa paid the bill. Basically a whole new roof was put on, a new awning, and a new Winegard wifi Connect antenna.
Doreen waits in the truck while they bring our trailer out.
I have to be honest- I was quite stressed out during the 17 days of waiting. We dropped the trailer off on June 5 and returned home to Lakeland and the waiting and not knowing when or if we were going to get back on the road. Added to the stress was not being able to turn back on our wifi and cable with Spectrum (formally Brighthouse). Their policy is to allow only one service suspension per year so if we wanted to turn everything back on we would not be able to shut it off again until next June. I ended up buying a Straight Talk Wireless hotspot from Walmart and luckily the basic cable was still on (no DVR or box).
The whole experience presented a whole set of problems from beginning to end: we had to pack up the contents of the refrigerator and freezer along with all the cat food and buy foam coolers to transport the food. I had bought tickets to baseball games; one in Denver and one in Los Angeles and we were probably not going to make it to; I had to cancel numerous campground reservations for all of June and then had to figure out based on when we got the trailer if we were going to make any after that.
In the mean time we acted like tourists in Lakeland taking the Frank Lloyd Wright tour at Florida Southern:
So here we are in Perry for four days. Our next stop is Hidden Cove RV Park in Arley, Alabama then five days in North Little Rock, Arkansas. After that is up in the air. We are going to take it slow and be spontaneous.
Stay tuned.
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