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HAPPINESS is to have EVERYTHING
you NEED,
NOT the NEED to have EVERYTHING

This month’s Travel Plans:
2. Jan. 14th Lake City, FL – Overnight (147m)
3. Jan. 15th Marianna, FL Overnight (169m)
4. Jan. 16th Robertsdale, AL – Wilderness RVP (RPI) x 4 days (165m)
5. Jan. 18th Hammond, LA Overnight (183m)
6. Jan. 19th Lafayette, LA Overnight
7. Jan. 20th Willis, TX staying at Lake Conroe (TT) RVP for 12 days.

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Our home had a booboo. On most times when the slide came in or out we would hear a very loud bang; made us think we might have problem. We had our carpet man from “Recarpet Your RV” business. He came back and made a small repair for which he was nice enough not to charge us for. This fix did not take care of our problem, however it did made the slide work nicer.

He recommended “Bob’s Welding.” I know, why would Bob’s Welding have to do with an RV slide? Thing is this is a three generation family of RV repair specialists. The founding patriot of the business was just that, a welder. RV’s needed some welding services from time to time in his day. His son spent fourteen years working for an RV dealership, Alliance I think, that was his education. This business does not market itself at $150 an hour. The fix on our RV came as a result of our replacing the carpet and adding vinyl planking in place of carpet in many places. The fix, for us, mandated that they had to retool a twenty foot floor-plate. They counter-sunk the screws that were tearing up our underpad and creating our problem. When the under pad failed the slide would be snapping the screws that secured the  plate to the coach floor, thereby creating that loud bang. After three and one-half hours in which we had as many as four workers on this job, the slide was fixed. I hate to think how much Alliance or LaMesa would have charged us for this job! The price averaged less than $100 an hour, a bargain for us.

“Everything,we were, we carry with us.
Everything we will be, is calling to us, 
from the roads not travelled yet." pjgrenier