Monaco Mecca - Day 1

After a relatively easy drive from Coolville, OH to Elkhart, IN, we are settled in the Monaco Service Center Customer Overnight Parking Area. Not bad: concrete pad, water and electricity. Kim, the service writer, is due at 6:30 AM in the morning. This an okay place with 40 pads. We arrived around 3:30 PM and there were 4 openings left. When we returned from dinner, we saw two open sites; a popular place.

Chuck and Donna were headed east toward Virginia and home when we both pulled out of the campground this morning. Our journey west took us around Columbus and through Lima, OH. We won’t go through Lima again: too slow and too congested. We stayed off interstate highways except when bypassing cities. Scenery was excellent and traffic was light.

We plan to take the two factory tours offered by Monaco: Motorized Coach & Roadmaster Chassis. The coach tour is at the Wakarusa facility about ten miles south of here. The chassis tour is about three hundred yards away from where we are parked. Both should be fun.

We are unsure of how long we will be here. Perhaps we will know more tomorrow. The facility is closed Monday for the holiday, so we may have a three day weekend here. Our plan is to stay until everything is repaired.

More later.