Entegra's Coach Academy '17 Rally - Day 2

After breakfast, our day started with a 90 minute '1-on-1 tech coach' session. Mike O'Connell, a knowledgeable Entegra Technician, met us at our coach and covered everything from front to back, inside and out.  He answered all of our questions.  We have owned our coach for over a year - we have taken it on many trips, even to Alaska. You would think we knew everything about it, but we didn't. In that hour and a half we learned so much, Mike was so helpful!

We picked-up our boxed lunches, which were pretty good, and ate before we boarded the bus to the Entega Factory Tour. Brittany was our guide on the informative journey through the factory; it is amazing to see the craftsmen work on the coaches from start to finish. At the end of the tour, we got to walk though the new 2018's Entegras that are ready for delivery.

Tonight, the dinner was a buffet of chicken, salmon and beef with all the accouterments. The dinner party theme was music from 'the 80's'.

     Music was a major part of my life in the 80's. I was a sophomore in high school in 1980 and I was going to concerts every month. In my senior year, I worked at a record store in the mall.  Do you remember record stores?  Before the 80's were over, I was living in England, enjoying concerts in London every chance I got, I was even at the Live Aide concert. 

So I loved a night of 80's music and the band did a very good job covering the songs. 

Entegra's Coach Academy '17

Goofing around in the big chair

We slept in a little longer this morning and didn't get on the road early. Got to Elkhart Fair Grounds a little late, the Welcome Reception for the had all ready started.  As we pulled into the fair grounds, we were greeted by Todd, who was helpful and efficient. He escorted us to our RV site and after we were parked he delivered us to the reception. It was terrific to see all our Enterga pals again. We spent the evening catching up with our good friends Marie and Jerry, it was a wonderful first evening to the rally.

Camp Atterbury, Indiania

Pond in front of our RV site

Today we rolled away from Baileyton RV Park in Johnson County Tennessee and drove to Camp Atterbury just outside of Edinburgh, Indiana. Camp Atterbury is an military training facility.  They have a wonderful RV park where every site is a long pull-thru with a fire ring complete with firewood. We like this RV park; this is our second time here, we stayed on our way to SpringFest last year. We are now headed to Entegra's Coach Academy, it kicks-off tomorrow on the 19th at 3pm with a Welcome Reception and classes are held on the 20th and 21st

Brotherly Love

John with his brother Eddie

We got together with John's baby brother, Eddie, and his wonder wife, Arlene. They live in beautiful Johnson County Tennessee.

It was good seeing them. They look
terrific and it was so nice catching up, it had been 5 yrs since we've all been together. The day passed quickly and our time together was much too short.

Eddie, John and Arlene

The Snake & Backbone Rock

Before we get to Nova Scotia, we have a few nice stops. We arrived in Tennessee today,

the forest covered hills are gorgeous. We are staying at the Baileyton RV Park for two nights.  It is a nice park with long
pull-thru sites, they have a swimming pool and a driving range for us golfers.

We are getting together with John's brother tomorrow. This afternoon we explored: we found 'The Snake' and backbone rock, two of Johnson County landmarks.  The Snake is a 33 mile road that is said to have 489 curves on 3 mountains. It is a favorite with motorcyclist, we loved driving it in the Jeep! 

       

Big Nova Scotia trip starts today!

Today we pulled out of Patrick AFB (Cocoa Beach, FL). Being on the open road again feels good, so good. You other RVers know what I'm talking about - being excited about a journey as it begins to unfold, maybe it is just knowing that new and exciting places are out there awaiting our arrival.

This will be our big Nova Scotia trip!  We've never been there.  We know of some other people that are headed is the same direction, if we are lucky we will see them on the road.  I have some 'Essery' family on Prince Edward Island; back in the day (around 1950) they ran a potato farm on the island.  It would be interesting to meet family there.

Tonight we fueled up at a FlyingJ in the town of St George, SC.  We pulled our rig in between the truckers at the FlyingJ for a good nights sleep.  Not very new and exciting, but that will come later.

Cocoa Beach Area for 2 Weeks

On April 1st, we moved the coach to Patrick AFB FamCamp. I grew up in the Cocoa Beach area and Patrick is close to where my father lives.  Patrick's FamCamp is very nice, directly on the Banana River, we will be back here. So for the last two weeks we've been on the spacecoast spending most days with good ol' Dad, it was time well spent. Actually, we planned to leave a few days earlier but we were enjoying the visit

so much we delayed the start of the trip a couple of days. We finished a couple of jobs around the house and he rewarded us with a few cookouts featuring his killer bar-b-q cheeseburgers and hotdogs, complete with toasted rolls and all. Good stuff! Dad knows his way around a backyard grill.