On the road early this morning, we are on another
mission - so by 8.15am we are on the way, driving south down HWY 131 skirting
Kalamazoo and shortly after we cross the state line into Indiana – the
crossroads of America!
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Indiana - Crossroads of America |
Arrive at Master Tech RV at Elkhart IN, just after 10am and
check in. It all starts well enough and
the old hose is off before noon and a new hose is ordered and being collected
while the techo has lunch. Meantime we
are just stooging about inside the workshop, me inside the coach reading and Kim outside helping.
About 3pm, after a couple of hours of no action, there is a rather loud ‘discussion’
with the boss about priorities, the new hose is back but the technician isn’t
aware of it and now there is a rush to get it fitted and us out the door before
closing time. Around 5pm they admit they
can’t get the hose onto the reservoir tank and need another elbow hose to increase the diameter from 1.25” to 1.5” to make it fit. That will have to be in the morning! So we are somewhat reluctantly invited to stay overnight inside the huge workshop which is about 30 bays big.
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Our home for the night |
Broc, the lovely Sales
Manager drops us off at Antonio's, his favourite Italian Restaurant for
dinner and he promises to pick us up afterwards, we should just phone him when we are
ready. It was a fabulous authentic
Italian dinner, Broc recommended the pasta in vodka sauce – now that has my
name written all over it! Only one
hesitation, I missed out on doing ‘dry
July’ because basically I forgot, so started to do dry August instead, actually
I started a few days before the end of July.
But as I was having vodka in my main course thought I would have a wine
as well – it has been one of those days when you just need a glass of wine! I will carry on with my dry August tomorrow :
) Kim has not sworn off alcohol for any
month and enjoyed a huge 24oz chilled glass of IPA and intended to have one of
the Montepulciano (we tasted a couple of wines before choosing) with dinner but
it all got too much for him, what with the bruschetta, salad, fresh bread and
authentic Lasagne - belly now tight as a drum!!
Both of us!! Broc was just having
a drink in the bar while we finished then he dropped us back at the coach for
the night.
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Yep, I'll have a 24 oz IPA
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The work might be expensive but the camping will be inexpensive
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