Our first Rally was lots of fun. My brother wanted to know what we were going to do in Perry, Georgia for 4 days! We went into the fairground/agricultural center parking lot with full water and propane tanks and empty holding tanks for 4 days of dry camping.
Rallies are great places to get little or major repairs done. All major RV industry vendors are there. The Lillicos had their Fantastic Fans, Roadmaster Towing System and a drawer worked on while we were there.
Entertainment was great... We were supposed to have Frankie Valli but he was in the hospital. Bobby Vinton was there in his place and is still as good as he was 50 plus years ago. He came into the audience and shook hands with Ralph. He sang all of his old songs and a few new ones. His daughter is his back up singer and his son directs the orchestra and sings too.
Ricky Skaggs was there on Saturday night and he doesn't know how to entertain "60+ years old teenagers" like Bobby Vinton did. He kept looking at his watch and he made sure he didn't sing longer than he was being paid to sing... he also said he didn't sing Rocky Top and most of us Tennesseans thought this was "un-American."
On a side trip Jim, Jan, Ralph and I went to Juliette, GA and ate at the Whistlestop Cafe, where "Fried Green Tomatoes" was filmed. The Fried Green Tomatoes were good and a couple of trains came through while we were having a late lunch. We took a tour of Macon... learned that Otis Redding and Little Richard both got their start in Macon. Of course I came back to the motorhome and downloaded "Sittin on the dock of the Bay" and several of Little Richards songs. I'm getting quite a library of music. If I had Emily here, we'd put in some music for you to listen to while you read. Check out her blog sometime!!!
Another side trip was to the Air Museum at Warner Robbins Air Force Base which Ralph enjoyed. He was talking to one of the volunteers (an old Navy man) who gave him a Ballpoint Pens that was ordered when Eisenhower was in Millegeville for some kind of signing in the 60s. The pens didn't arrive in time for the signing so they were given to the veterans group to give out at the museum. I've been trying to find out what the signing was on the internet... to no avail.
Learned a new bingo game at Southern Trails in Unidilla (our half way point to Florida). It's called Card Bingo or Lucky 13.
Will post more in Florida....
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