Today we drove the 28 miles from Ft. Wayne, IN to Decatur, IN. Decatur is the home of Fleetwood, a very large RV company, and a major employer in this area. Fleetwood is the company that makes American Coach.(Little House is an American Tradition). This week Fleetwood is celebrating their 65th Anniversary and is hosting a huge rally with 340 units registered. The main events are being held on a large school campus. We are parked in an auxiliary location about 10 minutes away from the rally site in a grassy field. There are no hookups so we are dry camping. We are allowed to use our generator from 6 A.M. to 11 P.M, which will help our batteries to keep their charge as well as enabling us to use our A/C if needed, Aqua-Hot water system, and microwave. Our refrigerator will run on propane and we have the propane stove to use as well. School buses will shuttle us back and forth as there's not much extra parking on the school grounds.
The rally officially starts tomorrow evening and will end on Sunday evening. There will be entertainment, seminars, RV's to look at, tours, and some meals as the rally goes along as well as the chance to get any parts that might be needed. As always, there will be new people to meet and and old friends to catch up with. It should be an interesting 4 days.
Tonight, the local fire department paid a visit to "our field" to see how we were all set up just in case we needed their assistance. That is one service call we all hope to avoid!
The weather was cloudy most of the day, with pleasant temperatures and nice breeze.
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