We Won!

At these Fleetwood rallies they always give you a raffle ticket and usually we don’t win. Today we won! Our prize was a Breeze fan that can adapt to a dog crate or just be used in the RV. It is great!

Many of you noticed when the Bee reported that Fleetwood filed for chapter 11--we were all wondering what was going to happen to the company. Today we found out. AIP is buying Fleetwood and it will become a smaller private company. The deal should go thru by the middle of July. When AIP heard there were 400 Fleetwood RV’s here in Gilletter at the first Fleetwood Motorcoach Association national rally, they told the new president of Fleetwood to get out here. So he came and spoke very eloquently about the future of Fleetwood. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out. We do know there will be changes, but the name will still be there and there will still be motorhomes. Maybe not Southwinds like we have, but something will exist. We didn’t know that Fleetwood has been number one in retail sales for Class A motor homes for 21 of the last 22 years. It was a very interesting meeting.

Last night we looked out the window to see out next door neighbors in this pose. I had to ask if I could take their picture. The big lab was so happy to be sharing the lawn chair. It outweighs our dogs by quite a bit.


Tonight was one of the banquets. The food was good and the entertainment was great. They were two guys who sang oldies from the 50’s and 60’s so many of us sang along. The best part of the evening was the very end when they sang “I’m Proud to Be An American” and the whole Fleetwood audience stood and held hands and raised them to sway with the music and sing along. It was a very moving moment. This is a patriotic group and we are happy to be part of them.

We all got back to our motor homes at the same time so there was a real party at the enclosed dog park. The dogs had a ball and so did their owners. Now it is time for bed where I’ll be singing (in my head) “I’m Proud to Be An American”.