Rallied Out?

Are you Rallied Out?   Billy and Rosey lead a pretty sedate life in the RV.  We sleep when we are tired, we eat when we are hungry and we leave when we are ready.   We stay up and read till 11:30 or midnight and sleep in till 8:30 am at least.  Why?   Because we can.   We love no schedule.  Now when you go to a Rally you will be busy with lots of scheduled events.  For one week we can handle it, but laughingly it tires us out.   Not that we are physically tired, just tired of the schedule.  :)

If you have not been to a Rally you should go, you will have fun.  If you join a group such as this FMCA Family Motor Coach Association they have subgroups of brand motor homes; thus ours is a Monaco.   It happens to be the largest subgroup in the FMCA.   A rally will take you to a place that you might normally not go such as Pahrump, Nevada.  Or this summer there is a rally in Manitowoc, Wisconsin.  Things to do at the Rally? Events start every morning at 7 am and ends about 9:30 pm.  Oh yes you can be as busy as you want!!   There will be prearranged tours in the area you can take, meet and greets, book exchange, seminars, caravan tour meetings, club meetings, craft classes, golf outings, new and used coaches for sale, and this Rally had 4 breakfasts and 4 dinners with drinks plus 3 entertainment nights.

Dinner with our new friends

 As well it was at a Casino so they gave you $20 each to spend for free.  Plus vendors booths.    Monaco had two tech reps come to your coach and fix one repair (not engine or chassis related) if you had pre-ordered the part for free.  We had a door arm that needed replacing and that saved us about $70 of service work.   The cost of the Rally turns out to be a good deal since you get all the activities plus your campsite at a discounted rate.   The guys tend to congregate and talk technical and the ladies more about places to go.  Our RV campsite neighbours Juan and Deb from California were so friendly.     We were at the Monaco Coach party and this guy comes over and says to Billy "hey I know you"...... "and he did!".   He was the fellow that we met last year in a campground in Washington and he told us about the Monaco Rallies!  Great couple we nicknamed "Rally Al" and we plan and hope to see them again along our travels in the future.

Blenheim Gals

Another lady on our bus tour was reading our name badges and home town.  "I know Blenheim" she said.  We were skeptical that she really did.   Then she exclaimed "I was born there and lived there as a little girl".   Can you believe how small the world is???