SEPTEMBER 20-21: BATH, NY TO CELINA, OH

Wednesday, September 20, we said good-bye to the Hickory Hills Family Campground in Bath, NY and set out for the two-day drive to Celina, OH.  The first part of our trip was southwest on I=86, a beautiful drive through woodlands and some farmland. Fall color is becoming more apparent, although the temperatures are still summer-like.  From I=86, we joined I-90 through Pennsylvania and into Ohio, eventually following I-271 around the east side of Cleveland.  That was our only slowdown of the two day trip with some stop and go as too many vehicles had to merge into too few lanes southeast of Cleveland. After that tie up, it was smooth driving to I-71 and our stop for the night - the Walmart in Ashland, OH. We parked in a nice spot along the grass so we could put out our driver's side slides, did some shopping after getting permission to stay, and enjoyed a quiet evening along with a few other RV's and a couple of trucks.

Thursday, September 21, we had a fairly short drive to Celina, OH and the Cruising America RV Service Center.  We were here a couple of weeks ago, hoping Kevin Mallory could diagnose our front rooftop A/C's problem, but we had to leave before he could come up with a solution.  Hank had done some more diagnostic work while we were camped in Bath, NY as per Kevin's instructions, but the next step was more than Hank wanted to tackle by himself, so we came back to Celina.



We're comfortably parked with an electric connection next to the service building. Kevin is very busy, but with no immediate future commitments, we don't mind waiting until he has time to deal with our problem once again.  This may not be a glamorous place to be, but it's clean, just across the road from Grand Lake, and we always have plenty of things to keep us busy.  And 3 more items needing service have popped up as well.  If we need to dump the tanks, we can use the facility at the Mercer County Fairgrounds about 1 mile away.  We would like to see cooler weather now that fall is officially here, but it appears that near 90 daytime temperatures will be with us for awhile.