At 7 AM we went to the Airstream service center and signed in. A guy towed our trailer into to service area from the Terraport with a tractor while we checked out the spacious customer lounge. Pretty soon the mechanic who had been assigned our trailer came in and took us back to the trailer so we could explain what needed to be fixed. He was all about getting things fixed to our satisfaction. We liked that. We picked up few items in the parts store and walked next door to HoBo’s cafe for breakfast where the heating stove burned shelled corn. It was another cool rainy day. We went to the Laundromat and washed clothes before returning to the service center. Bill the mechanic called us back in again to show us how the work was going. A 2:00 we took the daily tour of the Airstream factory which was guided by a retired employee named Don. The tour was very informative. We learned a lot about how the trailers are made. Don told us that eighteen months ago they employed 460 people at the factory. Now there were 100 workers on the job. A sign of the times.
After the two-hour tour, Bill showed us the finished work. We were happy with it and soon we were outside hooking the trailer back up in a light rain that felt like it was about to turn to snow. At 4:30 we headed east toward Columbus where we would once again get back on I-70. In Columbus we made our first stop at one of the popular Bob Evans restaurants for dinner. Anxious to get eastward, we drove on to Zanesville, Ohio where we parked in a Methodist church parking lot at 11:30. Finally the rain stopped and we had a good rest that night.
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