Back @ Red Bay

Da Botts and Us:

We left Ocala yesterday after church.  We only went as far as Monticello/East Tallahassee KOA yesterday. We got up this morning and ate the KOA campground provided breakfast - a freshly made waffle.  We had Sugar Cane Syrup.  For me it was the first time for cane syrup.  It was better than maple syrup I think.

We ended up driving all the rest of the way to Red Bay, AL which is where Tiffin Motorhomes is.  We have a couple of little things for them to look at (enough to justify us staying in the repair campground here free of charge for the night) tomorrow.

We will meet David and Brenda Bott here tomorrow.  They are a couple that we "met" on irv2.com (an rv information interchange website).  They had ordered an Itasca Ellipse 42GD which is what we USED to own.  They were the ones that informed us about the possible front axle weight issue.  We weighed our rig and found out that even though we weren't "fully loaded" we were already 1200+ pounds over the limit.  That was the final straw that got the ball rolling on our getting Trekker 3.

The Botts had already ordered a new Itasca Ellipse 42GD from Winnebago (Itasca is a Winnebago product line name).  We had stated on the irv2 board who our sales people were at Camping World in Indianapolis and they ended up using the same people (I don't know if our saying they did a good job for us influenced that decision).  Anyway, when they went to Indianapolis (from Upstate New York) to pick it up, we arranged to meet them there and go to lunch with them.  The lunch NEVER occurred because the rig they had ordered was a total mess when it was arrived in Indy.  It was so bad they ended up refusing receipt of it.

(to find out more about the woes that the coach was delivered with, read the post at the following url:)

http://www.outsideourbubble.com/winnebago-no-sale-of-special-ordered-coach-lack-of-build-quality

We've kept in touch with them since we shared the "Winnebago Woes" together (that sounds like a blues song title).  After going through an exhaustive search for a replacement for our "Overweight Ellipse" we settled upon the AB 45LP. We contacted them to tell them about the Allegro Bus 45LP and that we had settled on purchasing one.  We suggested they look into it as a possible coach to purchase.  After a totally exhaustive (and intensive) search of Newmar; Entegra; Tiffin - including visiting all of their manufacturing plants - David and Brenda DID settle on the AB 45LP.  It begins production on Friday.

We knew they we were going to be here for their Bus' production and we knew we were going to be here tomorrow for the installation of our additional cabinetry - so we contacted again and have arranged to FINALLY have that lunch we missed out on way back in July.  It's the longest I've ever had to wait to eat!