Gettysburg Battlefield Resort

We left Middlebury, Indiana late Friday and rested at FlyingJ, then continued on to Gettysburg Battlefield Resort today.  This RV park has a great location, we are so close to everything!

Art in Elkhart County - Stewart Johnson’s Sculptures

This morning, we were driving through downtown Middlebury when both John and I did a double take of a mailman in front of the post office. What were we seeing that was not there before? It was a life-size bronze sculpture, but looked so much like a  real mailman.

This week, 57 of Stewart Johnson’s life-size bronze sculptures were placed throughout the towns of Middlebury, Goshen, Elkhart, Bristol, Wakarusa and Nappanee as part of the 10th anniversary of the Elkhart County ’s Quilt Gardens. They will stay in place until mid-October.

The sculptures in Middlebury includes a man playing fetch with his big black dog in the park, a lady reading a book outside the library, a man selling hotdogs from a cart in downtown, the mailman sorting letters as he walks away from the post office, and a young girl playing with a hull-a-hoop. 

Farmers Market & Classic Cars

Today we checked out the farmers market in the area, it is a good looking large red building that calls your attention as you drive by. We've seen it many times but this was our first stop. As we started to walk around to check out the area, a few older cars drove up - then a few more. We were catching the start of a classic car show. Had a great time talking to the owners about their treasures on wheels. Before we left, there were over thirty classic cars.

RV-A-GOGO

Mark and his team at S&S Paints did a good job on our coach. After the paint shop, we went back to Entegra to have a few new trim pieces attached to our slideouts that were just painted.

At Entegra, we parked our coach next to Nancy and Betsy, creators of the RV-A-GoGo blog; check it out - an excellent travel site. We've been following their insightful and fun blog ever since meeting them at the SpringFeat last year. Since then, we've had the pleasure of catching up with them at a few RV rallies across the nation. Bright, fun ladies - always nice seeing them and their beautiful dog Spirit.

Last Day of 2-year PDI at Entegra

This was our last day of our 2-year Post Delivery Inspection (PDI) at the Entegra factory. Two very good technicians, Kyle and RJ, worked all week to functionally optimize our coach. They did a great job!  Stacey, our service adviser, was terrific. She helped make this experience such a pleasant one.

Stacey is sending us to S&S Paints on Monday to have a little warranty painting completed, it will take two days so she reserved us a room at the hotel.

Day-4 of PDI & Entegra Factory Tour

Entegra technicians picked up our coach at 6:30 this morning to continue with the PDI and they let us know that our auto-generator panel needed the latest software update loaded.  We took it to Cummings in Elkhart for programing. They were fast, the software was updated on our auto-gen panel in just a few minutes.

Each afternoon when the coach is returned to us, we review the work that the technicians completed. Most of the time, the finished work is a perfect examples of quality and precision; but once or twice it needed a little more attention and we just point it out to the techs the next morning and they redo it to our satisfaction.  

This afternoon, John and I joined four other Entegra Coach owners on a tour of the factory. This was the best Entegra tour we have been on, it was a small group of fun people and we were lucky enough to have the intrepid PJ as our tour guide. He is one of the company's sharpest technicians. He took the time to point out the differences of each of our coaches with what we were seeing on the new 2018's. True to form, PJ answered all of the owner's questions entertainingly and in full detail - he is a smart, funny guy and an amazing tour guide.

It was nice walking through the beautiful 2018 coaches that were ready for delivery.

Entegra Coaches include a 2-year warranty and 3-year roadside assistance. We used our roadside assistance, CoachNet, once last year. We were driving in the mid-west during a rainstorm and our windshield wiper started to have problems. We found a safe place to pullover and called CoachNet. A mechanic came to our rig in the pouring rain, he fixed our problem and we safely continued our journey all within three hours of calling.

Day-3 of PDI & Nexus RV Factory Tour

While the talented Entegra technicians continued optimizing our coach today, we took the opportunity to visit another RV manufacture in the area, Nexus RV.  They have a 10-acre campus in Elkhart, Indiana. David, a knowledgeable salesman, was our informative host for the tour through their facilities. One of the things that sets this factory apart from other RV factories is that Nexus RV manufactures their RV with tubular steel
framed walls, it is part of their standard construction.

I liked the wood slatted drop-down bed over the driver and passenger seats in the Bentley models, it has a nice Danish design and provides instant sleeping space for your guests.

Nexus sells directly from their factory to the customer, cutting out the middle-man.