Saturday, May 2, 2009

Off to Goshen---Day 1

We are actually back on the road. We are headed to Goshen, Indiana, for our Monaco America Spring Rally. We left home around 8:00am and headed east. First stop will be at Don & Vicki Leith's house in Greer's Ferry, Arkansas. Don & Vicki will be going to Goshen with us.

It was rainy out when we started out. Unfortunately, we did not get a mile from the house when the driver's side windshield wiper came loose from the arm and fell down. We have had problems with our wipers before and, actually, this is our third set of wipers. After stopping at a shopping center to put the wiper blade back on we were off again. Got almost to the interstate highway when the passenger side wiper did the same thing. Before we got out of Oklahoma we had stopped five times to fix the wipers. Due to the fear of the wipers coming off and loosing them I drove most of the way without using them. Made for fun driving considering that it rained on us almost the entire trip.

We arrived in Greer's Ferry around 4:00pm. We're glad to be back with the Leith's even though we had just spend three weeks with them in March on our trip out west for the Baker to Vegas race. Their daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter are here for the weekend so they have a houseful. They do have two full hookup RV sites adjacent to the house so we will be staying in the coach.


This evening Vicki fixed a great dinner for all of us and then we all headed to the game room, what I refer to as the Leith Bar & Grill. This is a great room with the toys a person would find in the local pub. They have an old Wurlitzer juke box with real 45rpm records on it, a pinball machine, full sized pool table and a bar size shuffle board table. They also have the necessary wide screen TV over the bar. All the toys got used tonight and the guys watched the NBA playoff game on the big screen. In these pictures are the game room, Jo and Vicki playing pinball and Don sitting at the bar watching the big screen. (Don has had the shuffle board table since his college days and it actually came out of a bar in California. He claims the house was designed around his shuffle board table.)
Since this had been a long an tiring day we headed to our coach around 10:00pm to relax a little, check our e-mails and turn in. (The house is also wired for satellite TV and WiFi. The TV reception does not extend to our coach but the WiFi does.)

1 comment:

Shelley said...

That room is totally amazing -- it does look like the local bar, too. I know Mom and Dad used to play shuffleboard a lot. The pinball machine reminds me more of the poolhall I used to frequent. But do they serve beer?