North Country 2011--Day 10

Another beautiful day in the north country and another great evening of music.

Arose to another wonderful day. The weather has really leveled off here in eastern Wisconsin and is very pleasant. Mild sunny days with a reasonable humidity. Nothing like when we first arrived. Today we had some work done on the coach. A Tech from Monaco came over to fix a couple of drawers in the bedroom that did not want to work right. One is fixed, the other needs a new slide arm. He also attempted to fix our passenger side review mirror. (Last March, in Georgia, while trying to exit a parking lot a tree "jumped" out and grabbed the mirror. Now it will not stay in the most upright position while driving down the road. Turns out the shaft it sits on that goes into the arm attached to the coach is broken. This will probably require replacement of the entire chrome mirror housing, including the electric remote mirror. I'll have to deal with that once we return to Oklahoma.) Also, Jo had a leather repair guy come to fix the leather upholstery on the driver's seat. It appears that over the past few years the dogs jumping up in that seat have taken it's toll from their claws. They did a fantastic job and it looks as good now as when we bought the coach.

In the afternoon I attended a meeting with the new man in charge over Monaco RV. After the Monaco Coach Corporation went bankrupt in 2009 that company was dissolved. The entire assets of the company were bought out of bankruptcy by Navistar Corporation, the maker of International Trucks along with other products. They reopened the company as Monaco RV LLC but retained the management team from the old company. Now, two years later, most of that team is gone and new, Navistar, people are being brought in. The new man in charge of the Monaco unit of Navistar appears to know what he is doing after 25 years with Ford Motor Company, including many years over their Ford Truck Division. After his talk and the question and answer session most of us feel much better about the future of the Monaco brand of coaches.

We finished off the evening with a good dinner, served by the caterers, and then were entertained by the group called "The New Odyssey". This is a group of three guys who, between them, play 30 different instruments. The are from the Chicago area and have been together for 30 years. In addition to performing great music they also are entertaining with their comedy and their interaction with the audience. We first heard this group at a rally in Brooksville, Florida, in February of 2007. This was the last night for entertainment to be scheduled. The rally ends tomorrow with no entertainment scheduled for after the dinner hour. We have been to many rallies in the past 10 years and have seen a bunch of good entertainment. We've also seen some not so good entertainment. I have to admit that this rally had the best mix of entertainment and did not have a "dud" on any night.