Motor Homes and Golf Carts

 

Monday, Nov 5.

Not knowing when to expect a knock on the door from the service adviser, we were up bright and early, putting things away, and getting the coach ready to be moved.  At 10 we called the service department and managed to get the service adviser to agree to meet with us at 12:30 in the office.  All morning long motor homes were moving around us -- in and out.  During the next 2.5 hours  we washed the car an got caught up on some communication and paper work.

At 12:15 the tech from Saturday stopped by and was ready to move the coach!  When we eventually met with our service adviser he told us he'd call us when the coach was pulled into the service bay.  He was surprised that it was already there.  This says something about their communications!

After going through our list of items with the service adviser, we took off.  Our first stop would be a Panera's for lunch, just a short distance away.  The Panera's is at Lake Sumter Landing, a village within something called The Villages.  The nav unit took us through rights and lefts on  narrow roads bordered on both sides by wide lanes used by many golf carts.  There were golf courses on both sides of the road.  When we finally arrived at Lake Sumter Landing there were so many golf carts moving around and parked that Jim wondered if cars were allowed in the area.  The village is a modern day Disney like version of an old fashioned village, with shops and restaurants, a central plaza, and a lake with docks and walking paths.  The huge Panera's was like nothing we'd seen before -- a big building that looked like an old-fashioned house.  Golf carts and people were everywhere.

After lunch we headed out to Ormond Beach to spend a few days with our friends Sharon and Jay.  Once again the nav unit took us through a lot of twists and turns, always headed north or east in a strangely direct route, through some very rural areas.  Eventually we got to route 40 which took us through the Ocala National Forest, miles and miles of wilderness of low trees and scrub brush, and then to our friends house.