Sophie's Traveling Adventures with Ted and Susan!: Making progress...

We are making progress, but are not finished yet…and are at the end of our second week in Red Bay!

Okay, last week we finally got to go in the bays…where the real work is done! On Wednesday afternoon around 1:00 p.m. we got “the call”… “you have 20 minutes to go to Bay 32!” Okay, we were ready in 15 and at the bay!

Ted pulls into the bay and they immediately plug in the electricity. They are huge bays and they tell us to open the slides. They talked to us about what needed to be done and then they went to work. One slide had a roller “fall out” when we first got the motorhome. We wanted them to check it because in Utah they just bent the bracket back and put the roller in. Also, we noticed that the cabinets no longer matched up at the top and bottom on that whole slide. Ted also noticed that the roller was rubbing the bottom of the slide. They put metal along the bottom of the slide so that the slide was protected. For the cabinets, they said we needed to have spindles at the end of the cabinet to support the cabinets in the middle and this would be done at the cabinet bay.

Next was the bed slide rubber seal problem. The rubber had gotten caught in the slide mechanism and ripped. It was such a big tear, we could see light coming in from the outside! That proved to be more difficult to get done but they finally managed to do it and we were out of there at 4:30. The day is normally done at 3:30 so we were glad they put in overtime to finish the slide. Since they were running late the supervisor was there and I asked where our paperwork goes from there. He asked what else we had left and then told us we should be ready to show up at Bay 7 (Air Conditioning) when they called on Thursday, (we were second in line).

We had the motorhome ready to go around 7:00 a.m. (just in case) and kept our eye on Bay 7! As soon as the motorhome left I went in and asked if they were ready for us. The guy said, sure come on in, even though he said he didn’t know if we were next or not! The water from the air conditioner is supposed to be pumped down a tube inside the wall and out the bottom of the RV, which ours wasn’t doing! They found the pump was not working and put in a new one! It seems as though it is working now!

When he finished, I asked if I could go with him to the next stop, the cabinet shop, to see when they would have time for us. The supervisor was gone but Billy in Bay 7 got the cabinet guy in Bay 25 to get us in first thing Friday morning! So at 7:00 we were at Bay 25 and got the spindles put in and a touch up on one of the walls. He also was able to even up the cabinets, that putting in the spindles didn’t correct! Here is a picture of the three wood braces or spindles they added. I think they look okay, Ted’s not so sure.

View of spindles from the kitchen:

View of spindles from the living room:

So now it’s another weekend! On Saturday Ted and I went to Fulton to Walmart and had lunch at KFC. On Sunday we drove to Tupelo, Mississippi, about 50 miles to go to Pet Smart to get Sophie’s dog food and her heart worm medicine. Unfortunately, they didn’t have the Banfield Vetinary service at that Pet Smart so we were not able to get her medicine. We found a place with a patio outside to have lunch. I went in and asked if we could eat out there, the young woman said sure. I go to the car, we get Sophie out, a blanket to lay on, her water and her food. Go in the patio and then I go inside. Another lady is there and said “sorry we are not serving in the patio today”! Arrrrgh! So we had a fast food lunch in the car and found the Starbucks, making Mom a happy woman and drove back to Red Bay, another exciting weekend! Sophie found the drive relaxing as always. She slept in the back seat on the way there and in mom’s lap on the way home!

It looks like tomorrow we will get in Bay 19 (Body Shop) to have the shower buffed out. It came with a lot of scratch marks on it. We also have discovered a leak from our grey water tank. It is a small leak that is going to be difficult to get to. The water leaks into the sewer bay, but at least it is clean water! So that will be a plumbing bay. And we still have the tile and levels to do! Will keep you posted on the Kercher Motorhome Saga!

More Sophie pictures. We are in Bay 32 and she's guarding!