There's an RV in that there tent OR We are outta here!

The final stop in our (almost) fully-expenses paid luxury vacation to the Tiffin Motorhomes Service Center and Allegro Campground was the body shop.  The Trekker had cracks developing in both of the front slideouts - On both sides it was where the exterior wall of the slide met the floor and the vertical wall of the slide.  The slides are a single piece fiberglass.  So the bus is essentially a 45 foot, 43,000 pound Corvette!  (And JUST LIKE A CORVETTE gets about 6 mpg of fuel.)  Below are the two corners AFTER they've been fixed.  They are so nice and pretty now.  Just like new.

The big thing that had to be done is the repainting of the Trekker.  This is NOT a monochrome colored vehicle like most cars and trucks.  RV's have multiple colors on them.  In the case of the trekker there are 4 different colors: Biarritz White, Ebony Satin,  Oceana Teal and Silver Sage.  To repaint the slide out after the fiberglass was repaired required taping off and repainting each stripe of the slide out individually.  After the four colors have been repainted then the 3 coats of polyurethane "clear coat" had to be sprayed on.

Travis and Chase did a great job with our body work.

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Oh, by the way, as an added gift, at ABSOLUTELY NO additional expense to us, they replaced our spotlight - F-R-E-E.  Of course that happens when their employee waves you into the repair bay BEFORE the bay door is all the way up and your original spotlight is torn off on the bottom of the door.  OUCH!

We left Red Bay early Saturday morning and drove down to Monticello, Florida just east of Tallahassee.  There we stayed in the Tallahassee East KOA.  Sunday we went to church at the Monticello church of Christ.  A congregation of about 35 with a minister and his wife and 3 children that have been there about 6 months.  That evening we went to the Timberlane church of Christ in Tallahassee.  Between the 2 services I got the "privilege" of watching the New Orlean Saints get the stuffing knocked out of them by the Carolina Panthers.  (Just a note: As I am writing this I heard that Cam Newton, the Carolina Panthers quarterback was in an automobile accident today.  His truck was hit by another vehicle and rolled several times as a result.  He has (as Irene calls it) a "seat belt injury" - 2 broken transverse processes in his lower back.  He is in "Fair Condition" and will be in the hospital overnight.  He will completely recover fairly quickly but he will be sore for a while, of sure.  We send our best to him in his recovery.

We arrived at Lazy Days in Seffner, FL yesterday and will be here until the 20th when we drive over to Kissimmee, FL for Christmas with the family until the 28th.