RED BAY, AL.  Arrived at the Tiffin Service Center early this afternoon only to find out that their parking area was full.  I had naively thought that this might be a slow time off-season, but it turns out to be peak service season for them because all the snow birds from up north are on their way south for the winter, stopping off here along the way for some needed maintenance.  Thus, we are parked at another RV park in town, which is beside and run by a company that also does Tiffin maintenance work and may end up doing some of the work we need done.  Tiffin has a policy that strictly limits the kind of work they will do on older models.  They are selling so many new models that they are giving them priority.  Our motorhome is now six years old, though we have owned it fewer than three years. 

The fact that the service center is so heavily booked right now may mean that we shall have a longer wait for service than we had anticipated.  We cancelled reservations to two places in order to accommodate re-routing ourselves to Red Bay for this service.  We hope to hear by tomorrow when our work can be performed.  If it will be late next week at the soonest (no work is done over the weekend), we may have to cancel yet more of our plans, including our planned visit with friends in North Carolina.  We cannot help wondering if some of our repair needs were caused by the roads in Canada and Alaska. 

We shall pray that we hear good news tomorrow.  We already must find a way to pass the time here over the weekend.