April 2
Drove from Renfro Valley to St Paul, IN where we stayed in a partially open campground, no sewer, limited sites with water as they think it’s still winter and we agree. Drove admiring the pink flowers in the fields along the way. Lunched at Cracker Barrel by parking in a huge shopping center lot next to the restaurant as all the RV spaces at Cracker Barrel we full of cars. Dumb people can’t read signs that say “RV Parking”.
April 3
St Paul into Elkhart, IN on highway 31. Stopped at lunch for a Subway sandwich where we could find a good parking place. Crossed the Ohio River near Cincinnati and it looked like lots of flooding and water backup. This was also the case at most of the rivers and creeks we crossed along the route. Maybe snow melt! It is interesting to see how folks live off the interstate highway, lots of farming. Arrived at the Equalizer Systems plant late afternoon, met Fred, our installer, and planned to meet in the morning for him to install the system on our motorhome. We are hoping for easy automatic leveling once we get to a campsite and stability eliminating the rocking when one is walking around especially when one goes to the bathroom during the night and the other nearly rolls out of bed. Had electric while parked overnight outside the service bay at Equalizer, set up the satellite dish and watched TV.
April 4
We were ready for Fred at 7:00 AM but they had sent him to deliver another coach at 6:00 AM so we had to wait for his return to get started on our install. Once he was ready we loaded our dirty laundry and our hungry bodies into the Fit and headed to the recommended cafe for breakfast and to use the laundry next door. Breakfast was great. We joked upon entering that we could not expect grits here but were surprised to see them on the menu. The waitress explained that the owner of the cafe was from Arkansas. We understood. Then to the cleanest laundromat we had ever been in. A woman was constantly cleaning the fronts of machines and doing laundry for folks that drop off for washing, drying and folding - paying by the pound. About an hour after we arrived a very well-dressed lady showed up and walked up the main aisle looking at each machine then retraced her steps, said “good morning” to us as she passed and left. Obviously the owner. Iris told the lady working there that it was the cleanest laundry we had ever seen. She lit up like a neon sign. We then went to Home Depot to make a few purchases and across the street was Walmart. We can rarely pass one up so we stocked up on some stuff necessary to life in an RV. Finally we found a convenient Red Lobster. We often order a combo platter, with salmon, lobster tail, and shrimp, to share. Also we shared a bowl of clam chowder, which our Mexican waiter from near San Miguel, divided up for us into two cups. Returning to Equalizer we got our books to sit in their waiting room and read. At about 3:30 PM Fred drove our coach in front of the door and announced he was finished. We had expected 1 days but had scheduled 2 if necessary. As far as we could tell they did a bang-up job and it worked like it should. By the time we paid (painful) it was too late to start our return home so we drove a short distance to the Elkhart Campground (catchy name?) to spend the night. Got level, watched some TV, read a little and bedtime. Sure enough there was no rocking of the coach when we moved around. Nice and stable.
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