Our coach has eight awing style windows, four in the living room and four in the bedroom. Two of the living room windows and two of the bedroom windows are fogged, and one of the living room windows has standing water in it as a result of very heavy rain today. I finally got around to calling Suncoast Designers in Hudson, Florida this morning. They manufacture windows and repair/rebuild RV windows. They have been recommended to us by several different friends as THE place to have our fogged thermopane bus windows fixed. I had also been told that they might not work on our windows because it is a Prevost.
It took a few minutes on the phone, but they eventually concluded that they could repair our windows due to age of the bus, i.e., it was old enough that they could work on it. This was one of those rare cases where older was better. The first available appointment was April 8, so I took it. I was told to plan for 3 – 5 days to complete the work on the four windows. We have to arrive on the 7th so they can start first thing the next morning. They have water/electric hookups and a dump station provided at no (additional) charge for customers having work done. If I had called in January (like I should have) we could probably have gotten an April 1 appointment; no fooling.
My main focus for today was to wrap up my article for Bus Conversions Magazine on the Cool Cruiser, a 1957 GM PD4106 that belongs to Frank and Phyfi Morrison. Of course there was a constant flow of e-mail as well as breaks for food and games. I can focus for a long time on a task if have to (and want to). One of the nicest things about retirement is that I rarely have to, and I am learning not to want to, at least not all of the time. But I am enjoying writing for BCM, so for now this is something I want to do. The article I finished yesterday on the Iron Horse was the first one I have written about someone else’s bus. The one I worked on today was the second. I have a third one in the queue and several offers out to help other friends. I also have a dozen articles in process or planned on our various bus projects, places we have been (Harvest Hosts), and things we have done (Habitat For Humanity build).
Hudson, Florida is approximately 2 hours SSW of Williston, so it only made sense for us to stay here until April 7th if possible. By early afternoon there was a lull in the rain so I went to the Resort office to see if we could extend our stay for six nights through the night of April 6th. The answer was “yes” and we will be able to stay in our current site. They charged us the daily rate equivalent of our 3-month rate; about half the normal daily rate. Williston Crossings RV Resort continues to be a very nice place to stay.
The Cool Cruiser article still needed a lot of work as I had not yet selected, processed, inserted, and captioned the photographs. I worked on that, off and on, the rest of the day and late into evening, but did not finish the job. Oh well, tomorrow’s another day.