OCTOBER 8 - 16: Service at REV in Decatur, IN.

Sunday, October 8, was our 51st wedding anniversary, celebrated quietly with a Mexican dinner in Celina, OH

Monday, October 9,  we got the wheels moving on Little House and headed 30 miles northwest to Decatur, IN and the REV Service Center.    We have had an intermittent problem with the system that raises the coach up for travel, (Kevin in Celina doesn't do chassis work) and didn't want to wait for a complete failure to strand us somewhere down the road.  REV is booked up months in advance, but you can get on a 'drop-in' list for service.  There is only one chassis specialist here, so our wait for service would take longer than usual, but we had nothing pressing on our schedule.  We were lucky to get a spot in the paved parking area with electric hookups when we arrived, there's a dump station and water source nearby and free 'camping' is always good.

None of this sounds exciting, but it is enjoyable to meet the people who come and go, including some we've met before.  There is a free laundry facility in the building,comfortable lounges with many tvs, rest rooms, and computer stations if we want a change of scenery, as well as an outdoor seating area with gas fire pit.

The weather was sunny and warm, but turned cool and wet, leaving us with fall in the air.

While we were waiting for our turn with the chassis tech, we found out that water was once again appearing behind the co-pilot's seat.  We've had this supposedly repaired at least 4 times. Hank added this to our complaint list, and on Friday morning, October 13 at 6:15 A.M., we got the call asking how soon we could have Little House ready for the service bay so they could search out the leak source.  After lunch, we got the report that extensive sealing work had been done as well as an hour-long water test and the problem seemed to be fixed.  On the matter of the "airing up to travel' problem, the service adviser said if it's not acting up when it's time to look at it, it would be difficult to find the problem.  Hank agreed to test it over the weekend and report to him on Monday morning, October 16.

Hank could not get the system to fail during several tests on Saturday, so we got ready to hit the road on Monday, the 16th, again with no problem. While testing on Saturday, hank re-calibrated the level sensors which required raising and lowering the coach several times - all without any failure to raise the coach to travel height.  Like many of our automated functions, the leveling system is controlled by a micro-processor and re-initializes whenever powered off and back on.  Since all of the batteries were recently changed the system had to reboot and Hank suspects that maybe that was all that was needed to get the levelers working again.

With the leveling system apparently working, and no more signs of the water leak, we were more than ready to start heading south.