Today our American Coach Chapter caravaned 3.9 miles (85,435.1 total) to the Georgia National Fairgrounds for the FMCA Rally. I thought we had our act together and we arrived in numerical order, 16 coaches all in a row. We were immediately jumbled into three random lanes and sat for twenty minutes before they decided we should all be "staged" off to one side. We sat for nearly two more hours before they finally parked us in our spot. We only moved a couple hundred yards from the staging area to our site, so the big question was "why did it take so long?" I can only assume we were being punished because two of our group had the wrong placards in their window. I will always remember the response one of the parking crew gave me when I asked about the delay - he said: "I don't know, but I can promise you it will get worse".
That's us, third on the right!
We actually ended up in a very convenient location clustered together with the perfect location for afternoon get-togethers.
I believe the cutie below was with Jean and Bruno. She just quietly watched all of us crazy campers socializing during happy hour.
On one of the days before the rally activities started Loren and I made a quick trip to the Museum of Aviation at Robbins Air Force Base.
We met a guy who told us about some history and peculiarities of a few of the aircraft on display outdoors. We thought he was a docent working for the museum, but he was actually just a visitor who had retired from the Air Force after many years of flying. One of the C-130 aircraft he crewed on was now in the museum and he stopped in to see it.
There was some rain during the rally, but the really severe showers you see below passed by to the south of us.
We opted out of most of the entertainment. Truthfully it was because we were too lazy to walk over in the evenings after walking around the vendors all afternoon. On the final night, Jeanne Robertson was there to regale us with commentary on life and I am so happy we did not miss her. She had us laughing sometimes to the point of tears. Check her out on YouTube.
Jeanne Robertson was recovering from a broken leg, thus the rocking chair. If you have an Amazon Prime account, you can watch her DVDs for free.
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