FCOC Rally in Hillsdale IL

We left St Paul, MN (FMCA Rally) on the 18th of July and was headed for Hillsdale IL for the FCOC Rally at Sunset Lakes Resort. We had a slight delay when the valve on our Air Dryer for the air bag system went bad and we had to wait several hours for the part to arrive at the Freightliner location in Rogers,MN. We arrived in Hillsdale by about 10AM the next morning after driving for over an hour, in the rain, with no windshield wipers.

The Rally was great, lots of great people and the folks at the resort did a great job of keeping all of us well fed, laughing, and we all had a great time. The Freightliner people were on hand to help everyone with any issues or problems. There were lots of seminars to attend and things to learn from everyone there. But mostly there were a lot to eat and drink and lots of good people to share it all with.

There was a severe thunderstorm the first day that we were at the campground, there were trees broken and falling on homes and cars in the towns nearby and they had no electricity for about 4 days. There were broken electric poles and lines over the highway for a couple of days. The campground had electricity though and only had a few trees broken, but a lot of branches were laying around on the ground and even on the coaches.

We received our wipers by UPS the next day after the storm, so we felt more comfortable now. We decided to stay for 4 more days after the rally ended, so we could relax and get our laundry caught up and all. We will be leaving on the 27th of July and heading south toward Springfield Illinois for a few days.