Mandalay Factory Service, Elkhart, Indiana

We are in Elkhart Indiana now at the service department, what the Mandalay owners affectionately call "Camp Mandalay" . We have been here for 4 weeks last Friday, and hope to get out of here sometime next week.

We were here for 5 weeks last year, and do not want to break our record this year. Hopefully we will be south of here before the snow comes, but it is very cold here, 30's at night and upper 40's during the day. We have our alarm clock set for 5:45 am and have to have our coach ready for the workers by 7:00 am, we get it back each day by about 3:30 pm. This is almost like having a job, ha ha (except we don't get a paycheck)!

We have met a lot of people here, and made some new friends too, like Ed and Rosemary from Minnesota. They came in just after we arrived and we quickly became friends. We hated to see them leave to go home, it is a little quiet around here now.

Our daughter, Kristy and her 6 children live in the next town south of here, Goshen, so of course we have been able to see her and the kids a few times, and that helps to make this a more enjoyable time. They are all doing great, and it is so much fun to see them and catch up on what is going on in their lives.

Our next stop after we leave here, is Camdenton Missouri, to visit with our Son Frank and his family for a couple of weeks, them we are heading for Florida and have reservations in the Orlando area from Dec 2nd until Jan 5th.