COOKEVILLE, TN.  Yesterday morning the Tiffin Service Center called to tell us to drive our motorhome to Bay 10 for service.  After we arrived there we were told that it was very likely that only the right front slide would be repaired.  Our three-hour time allocation would be exhausted just repairing that, and it was quite a project.  Fixing that required a very skinny tech crawling into the basement and over the holding tanks, a space about 14 inches high.  Made me claustrophobic to watch. Yet he replaced the hydraulic cylinder, with the help of two other techs, one on either side of the motorhome looking inside the basement as he worked.  It was done quickly enough that most of the other things we needed done also were done by mid-afternoon.  We paid our bill with Tiffin, then drove back to the RV park around the corner to pay for our time there, and were done by 4 pm.  We picked up a supper at the local drive-in restaurant and took it to eat at the customer lounge, where we talked to other customers and watched some TV.  The camaraderie there will be missed.

Today we drove to our reserved site here in Cookeville, TN.  It was a longer drive than the original itinerary would have required, but all has turned out very well, and we are thankful.  Tomorrow will be an even longer drive into western North Carolina, requiring us night owls to get up extra early to accommodate an early departure.  Once there, it will be five nights and four days in one very nice place.