Friday September 23rd 2016

I got on the road to Red Bay Alabama at 9AM this morning. A little over 4 hours later after going through Alabama’s two biggest cities I arrived at the Tiffin Motorhome company service center campground.

The traffic in the cities was heavy but moving. The biggest challenge was the quality of the road surface. The concrete was heavily patched and very rough. I had more stuff move around and cabinets open in transit than I’ve had yet. The stack of plastic draws I put in the back wardrobe closet came out and dumped the contents all over the bedroom. It made for a lot of fun (not) restoring order in the bedroom.

My early afternoon arrival on a Friday allowed me to secure a site in the campground. This evening it looks like all of the sites are filled. A number of people completed their service today and will be leaving tomorrow. So some room will be available tomorrow. Service doesn’t work over the weekend so anyone that came in today or over the weekend will not get scheduled until next week.

I turned in a list of 10 items I want addressed while I’m here. A customer service manager will meet with me on Monday to go over the list and schedule me for one of the service bays. If any of my items need a specialized service bay, I could be here a while. I don’t think I have anything like that but will still need to wait for a service bay.

View of some of the RVs parked along the runway at the Tiffin Service Center Campground.

There are close to 100 sites here at the service center. It is located at an old airport. The road in front of my RV home is actually the old runway. The campground is not much more than a parking lot with electric, water and sewer hookups. It serves the purpose it was designed for well.

Most of the motorhomes here are high-end units. My rig is one of the lower end units present in the lot. The motorhomes come from all over North America. I saw several from California, Washington and Arizona. They probably have the distance record, but Canada, the Midwest and the eastern seaboard are also well represented.