RED BAY, AL (Day 2).   Early this morning a Tiffin representative stopped by our motorhome to review the items we listed yesterday to be serviced.  We were happy to see that most of what we needed done could be done at this service center.  We are in line to begin service "in about three days," which would begin Friday or perhaps Monday.  The remainder of the mechanical work can be done by a Freightliner dealer nearby, with whom we have scheduled an appointment for Wednesday the 27th.  We also visited a place in town that does customization of motorhomes.  We discussed sketches of what he could make and install that would replace our useless long sofa, upon which we have been piling things for which we cannot find anywhere else to store.  They can replace the sofa with a set of four large drawers in a storage cabinet made of wood that would match our existing inferior.  That would reorganize our interior wonderfully.  We also would pick up another recliner so that both of us could have a place for reading in our living room.  It would require moving our motorhome to that company's RV parking lot, which has full hookups, for the duration of the renovation.  Just how we can be on standby for three days for work to be done here, make it to the Freightliner place on Thursday, and fit in time at the customizing company will be the challenge, since we need to leave Red Bay by month end to get back home for Betty's eye doctor appointment on the 4th of April.

So far, things are going smoothly, and we hope to return home to resume our usual duties for a month and a half before departing on our long journey beginning May 16th.  Tomorrow we go on a tour of the Tiffin factory, followed by a tour of their painting facility at a location next door in Belmont, Mississippi.