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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Tiffin RV park, housing over 100 Tiffin\u2019s waiting for repairs, is made up of row upon row of near identical motorhomes. So much so that one of the new owners we met walked into someone else\u2019s coach to face a shirtless man, not her husband, both of them astonished, red faced and apologetic. This same owner told us she had gone to a safety class giving her instructions on how to exit her motorhome through the bedroom window should the need arise.\u00a0 I kid you not, she told us that her husband would take the bedspread and hold one end while she climbed out the window, then her husband would shut the bedspread in the window to hold it while he climbed down.\u00a0 I bit my tongue and smiled politely.\u00a0 John, tacky daddy that he is, didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
While sitting at one of the slide repair bay\u2019s, John advanced with a huge forced grin. \u201cGive me a hug\u201d were his first words just seconds after talking to the supervisor. Hmmm. Suspicious and never a good sign. Got my hug, then the news. We need the entire underside of our passenger side kitchen slide replaced as it has snapped and buckled. That is the reason all our kitchen cabinets and drawers are separating.<\/p>\n Our regular repair mode of 5:30 wake time was compounded by the removal of everything in the passenger side kitchen slide from the drawers and cupboards so they can lift the slide out, tilt it and replace the flooring.\u00a0 Easy right?\u00a0 Because we have so much extra room to store stuff.<\/p>\n John felt compelled to pick out every rock and loose screw along the edge to keep himself busy.<\/p>\n After it was removed, we were advised that the repair would take longer than a day.\u00a0 That afternoon we left LilyPad in the bay and were treated to a night in a king size dog friendly room at Best Western Plus compliments of Bob Tiffin.\u00a0 Great free omelet breakfast before taking a leisurely drive back to Red Bay.<\/p>\n And today a new discovery, our kitchen slide on the driver\u2019s side, opposite what is currently being replaced, has broken rollers and the flooring also needs to be replaced. Once we put one side back together, we start taking things out of the other slide\u2026rinse and repeat. Are we having fun yet?<\/p>\n Back in our motorhome, we removed the contents of the other side for the next days repair.\u00a0 Out, repaired and put back within four hours.<\/p>\n Our roof rails needed a tweak (more rivets and then gel coated to secure the replacement made last year) and the wet bay (the floor under the black\/grey tanks) is rotting out and must be replaced.<\/p>\n In another bay, our neighbor went up in the air while our repair man crawled under to fix the newly discovered shorted out sensor in the engine coolant.<\/p>\n When I walked to the back of the motorhome to check on progress, I was surprised to see boots standing inside the back of our engine. My first thought was \u201cmaybe we can store something in that empty space\u201d. Then again, probably not.\u00a0 I doubt I can talk John into crawling under the motorhome to retrieve anything squeezed into that space.<\/p>\n Next bay, another potential repair needed to the back bedroom slide as it is not square to the walls\u2026and the gouge under the fridge slide area appeared again.\u00a0 Fixed and fixed.<\/p>\n Now, nearly three weeks into repairs, I\u2019m hearing \u201cyou need to chill\u201d whenever I explain that the same repair was made last year or that we have just \u201cbeen here-done that\u201d in another bay. Although exasperating, the silver lining is that if this had been any other brand of motorhome, the cost would have been major.\u00a0 Tiffin stands behind its motorhomes and almost all of our work is being covered under warrantee. Repairs that are not, are billed at the cost of parts.\u00a0 Even million dollar motorhomes don\u2019t do repairs gratis six years after purchase.<\/p>\n Taking intermittent breathers, we were able to get away a few times for lunch and dinner with our new friends to chat about life on the road. Saturday we drove to the number one fish restaurant in the area.<\/p>\n Lash\u2019s Seafood Restaurant has a swampy campy appearance, nothing fancy but as full of atmosphere as a Disney themed diner.\u00a0 Awesome gumbo but all the other offerings were only mediocre.<\/p>\n I could feel the tension melting away as we sat by the window watching the muddy waters flow past us.<\/p>\n I usually don\u2019t do the \u201ckeeping up with the Jones\u2019s\u201d thing but our new friends have a door bell and I insisted that we needed one. It is set to play \u201cDixie\u201d. That may not endear us to our Yankee neighbors in Massachusetts, but it will proudly let all who visit us know where our hearts and roots are planted.<\/p>\n Our journey to Massachusetts has now been on hold 22 days. Our wood cabinet and drawer repair is done, they replaced the incorrect wet bay tub that was installed when they replaced the wet bay, a new motor for our dishwasher will be ordered (it broke when they took the slide out for repair) and I have heard rumors that we will be done at the end of today. As is the custom here at Red Bay, we will take one entire day to check all repairs before we pay the bill and get ready to roll the next morning.<\/p>\n Early waking up this sunny clear Friday morning.\u00a0 All is good to go.\u00a0 Good By Red Bay, see ya next year!\u00a0 Next stop, Nashville, Tennessee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are planted here for however long it takes to make repairs. 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