Mayberry Campground in Mount Airy, NC

 We had a great weekend at Mayberry Campground a week ago. Seven coaches with thirteen members attended this rally. We all came in on Thursday and we had a late afternoon welcome get together, arranged by our hosts Joyce and BB, with the help of  Buddy, their four legged companion.

Friday most everyone took the opportunity to explore the town of Mount Airy and the surrounding areas. A few even wandered into nearby southwest Virginia. One couple found an apple and peach orchard, bringing back a box of delicious fresh picked peaches. That evening most of us went to the the nearby town of Dobson for dinner at the Depot restaurant. Great meal, service, and company. That evening a few got together around the firepit. 

Saturday was another day of exploration for most of us. Several couples found their way to that Virginia orchard for peaches and apples. Others did shopping trips into Mount Airy, while others stayed at the park under the shade of their awnings. That afternoon most of us were putting together our pot luck contributions for that nights dinner. Around six we all gathered at the shelter and enjoyed everyone's efforts. Some of those peaches found there way into a churn of peach ice cream that we all enjoyed. We followed up dinner with our meeting. After the meeting we all sat around the firepit until the last of the wood embers died down.

During our meeting we decided to help promote our club, and it's membership, by having tee shirts printed with our new logo and distributed to the current and future members. Current members who will be attending the holiday lunch in December should contact the club secretary, Mitzi, as soon as possible, with their sizing requests. The shirts will not be delivered, but if you are coming to an event and you give Mitzi enough lead time, the shirts can be brought there for you. Check your email for one from her about this.

Sunday morning we got together for a light breakfast, again supplied by our hosts. Someone remembered that this would be our last rally of the year and we had not elected officers for next year. After a little discussion we opened up another meeting session and elected officers for 2025, with the current officers serving another term. After that the process of packing up to leave before checkout time began. Another rally closed out with fond goodbyes and wishes for safe travels.

Our next get together will be our holiday luncheon, Sunday, December 8th, at 2 PM. We chose the Olympic Family restaurant located in northwest Greensboro/Colfax area, 8900 West Market Street, Colfax, NC 27235, (336) 605-4745. Please bring a new unwrapped small toy for a young boy or girl, or both, for our club to pass along to the US Marines Toys for Tots campaign.

A reminder about the 2025 club dues. First, your membership with the parent club, in Red Bay, at the Tiffin headquarters, must be current. If it is, you can renew your membership with the Piedmont Allegro Club. Check your email in December for more information about doing that.

Early summer at Tanglewood Park

 Five couples of our group gathered together at Tanglewood RV park in Winston-Salem NC the first full weekend in June. We gathered together at Mike and Mitzi's RV and all squeezed in tight under the awning when a surprise shower sprung up in the area. 

Each couple introduced themselves so we could all get to know each other better. Those of us that have been around a little longer (Kathy & Clennon, Joyce and BB, and Mike and Mitzi) found a lot of "common ground" of topics with our newer members Laura and Mark and Ed and Carol. 

It turns out that two of the couples present head to FLA for the colder months and two others were not going to be available for Salem Breeze in Oct so we decided to discuss different "mountain area" options to gather late in Aug instead. We are now confirmed for Mayberry RV park Aug 22-25. 

All five couples had 4-legged friends with them and took those adorable dogs walking all around the beautiful options at Tanglewood - some venturing further out onto the beautiful trails available. Friday evening we all gathered at LaCaretta Mexican Restaurant and we were grateful that other long term members, Don, Jim and Minnie, and Ed and Martha, were able to join us for the evening. 

Saturday's festivities included a covered dish gathering with scrumptious additions from each RV. After dinner we held an important business meeting discussing the new bylaws sent out by Tiffin.  The document was sent out to all of our members today and we will continue discussion and then voting at the end of the 15 day review period. 

Luckily, the business meeting didn't take too much time and then we jumped right into a fun and intense trivia game competition. Let me tell you - Ed blew us all away and we found out that he and Carol regularly win trivia contests down in FLA! 

Sunday involved the usual packing up and heading out - slowed down quite a bit by coffee conversations at each campsite as we walked around to say farewell. We are already looking forward to our next gathering and hope to see many more PAC members gathered with us in Mount Airy!

Club membership dues for 2024 are due.

 Please send in your dues today. Check your email for the details.

 Holiday lunch, 12/10/2023 - Moose Cafe in the Piedmont Triad Farmers Market

We had eleven couples celebrate the holidays on a cold and rainy Sunday afternoon.  The service was very good, the food was good and it came out fast. The prices were reasonable and the portions were large. No wonder we keep going back there. This was the last event for calendar year 2023 and it also began the terms of our newly elected officers. We had a short meeting after lunch. The activity schedule for 2024 was further discussed - see the upcoming events page of this web blog site. If you are a club member and you want to volunteer to be the camp hosts for our October rally at Salem Breeze campground, located in Winston-Salem, please contact our club secretary - see the contact information page of this web blog site. And, if you are a club member and you want to volunteer to fill the vacant position of Vice President and Wagon Master, you also, can contact the club secretary - see the contact information page of this web blog site.   Most of that officers duties as Wagon Master have already been completed for calendar year 2024 by our out going President, Kathy Powers, and Vice President, Clennon Vasser. Also, our clubs charitable donations to the US Marine Reserves, Toys for Tots campaign, and to the Central and Eastern North Carolina Foodbank were both confirmed. 

We hope to see you all at the clubs spring luncheon on April 13th at noon. We are planning to have this event at the Campers Inn of Mocksville, the only Tiffin authorized dealership in North Carolina. We are working with Kirk Wells, from the dealership, to try to arrange this. Further details will sent out to the members in an email soon.

Thanks to Robert Sells at Salem Breeze Campground and Kirk Wells of Campers Inn of Mocksville

We all gathered in mid October 2023 for another great rally in Winston- Salem, NC at the Salem Breeze Campground. The owner, Robert Sells, who also owns the Cool Breeze Campground in Galax, VA, catered to our every need. His campgrounds are very well constructed and maintained, with long and level full hookup pull through sites and nice amenities, complete with large indoor rally areas.

The weather was good, except for a little rain on Friday night. This was expected and caused us to adjust our rally schedule around slightly.  Instead of eating at the campground on Friday night we went out to dinner at a very nice nearby restaurant that Robert recommended, the Arcadia Family Restaurant. Our club has eaten there before. Always good food, lots of choices, and very good service and prices.  Saturday night, Kirk Wells from the nearby Tiffin dealership, Campers Inn of Mocksville, cooked another great steak and chicken BBQ. He trailers in his mobile kitchen and brings all the food, plates, napkins, cups and cutlery, drinks, and cooks it all fresh. He is such a warm and friendly person, and he really enjoys feeding rally groups who come into the areas near the dealership.  All sponsored by Campers Inn of Mocksville.

During the days everyone was free to explore the nearby areas, with some going to High Point, Lexington, downtown Winston-Salem - and some of us just staying at the campground and chatting with Robert. Another very good rally. We all agreed, we are coming back here next year!

 Please check the upcoming events page to see the details of our December 2023 Holiday Lunch and our 2024 events schedule. Enjoy the rest of your Fall and Winter seasons.

Roanoke Rapids - 8 JUNE - 11JUNE 2023

 We gathered in Roanoke Rapids, NC at the RV Resort at Carolina Crossroads, for our second rally of 2023. Kathy and I got in a day early to begin our duties as rally hosts. For this rally we opted to bring our, new to us, a 28 foot class B+ coach, that we named Junior. After setting up in the campground we checked out the facilities. Nice pool and jacuzzi, rally room, small camp store, large open air covered game area. The campground was clean and well maintained.  The sites were long enough for our coach and tow vehicle, and plenty wide enough for the slides and awning. We were very lucky to be assigned a full hookup pull thru site next to a large covered gazebo. Since we knew another club member couple would be coming in to the site on the other side of the gazebo we staked it out and made it our extended home for the weekend. We were given the key to the rally room for our exclusive use all weekend, it was large and had a full kitchen, and since there were only going to be ten to twelve of us we opted not to use it - the gazebo would work just fine for our needs.

On Thursday we gathered information about things to do and see from some very friendly staff at the chamber of commerce - the tourist information office was closed for remodeling. Most of the group arrived while Kathy and I were still checking out the nearby areas. We got back and setup for the welcome meet and greet in our gazebo. Some of us brought our chairs and with the gazebos picnic table and a folding table we had everything we needed. It was nice to see familiar faces and meet new ones. We talked and swapped stories for a few hours and then split up for the night.

On Friday some of us did day trips while the rest of us met up in the campground to visit. Friday night we opted for dinner out at a local Mexican food restaurant that the campground owner and the chamber recommended. The food and the service was good, with a large menu to select from.

On Saturday we again did day trips around the area, while some of us stayed at the campground. Kathy and I had an electrical issue with our coach so we dealt with that issue for part of the day. We could not get power into the coach using our 50amp cord and connection so we ended up stringing a series of extension cords to power up what we needed for the rest of the weekend. We all met up at another recommended local restaurant, this time a steakhouse. The food and service were great. After dinner we all met up back at the campground, at the gazebo, for our meeting and more visiting.

On Sunday morning at 6 am Kathy and I woke up to a coach filled with smoke. Turns out that a foil covered heater duct was not properly anchored down and had shifted - touching a 12v bridge bar in the back of the converters distribution panel causing it to short. Our plans to stay an extra night suddenly ended. We did a temporary fix of that issue and immediately packed up to leave. Two electrical issues in one weekend was enough for us. There were a few others up that early so we said our goodbyes. Most everyone was scheduled to leave later in the morning. On the way home I called the campground office, once it opened. I advised them of our problems, assuring them that the issues were with our coach - not their power pedestal. They cheerfully refunded us for the unused portion of our stay.

PS: Junior is fixed. The GFCI outlet did not seem to be faulty but it was indeed creating most of our problems. A simple replacement with a better quality unit fixed the AC problems. Rerouting and anchoring the heater duct fixed the DC problem.

Here are a few pictures of our Friday night out at the local Mexican restaurant in Roanoke Rapids:

Hope to see you all at our fall rallies:

9/14 - 17 at Tom Johnson Campground

10/19 - 22 at the Salem Breeze Campground

See the Upcoming Events page for more info.

Tanglewood Rally - April 27th - April 30th, 2023

Six of our member couples braved a rainy weekend and still managed to have a great time. 

Most of us arrived Thursday afternoon before the rain started up later that evening. We met at Kathy and Clennons coach for a meet and greet on Thursday at around 5:00 pm. Lots of snacks, drinks, and good conversation. 

Friday most of us enjoyed a few hours of sunny skies by touring the park and the surrounding areas.  We met up at a local restaurant, getting in just before the wind and the rain settled in. Luckily it was short lived and we got home without getting soaked.  Some of the group set up at the shelter until late that evening, swapping stories, and getting to know some of our new members. The rain lasted all night - great for sleeping.

Saturday was overcast in the morning, but by noon the sun was out and we were moving around the campground visiting and enjoying the day. The shelter was reserved by another group but the campground work camper hosts set us up at their site with plenty of tables and chairs for our pot luck dinner and meeting. We enjoyed a good meal and enjoyed the evening. The meeting was short, but productive. Some of us stayed and lingered by the camp hosts firepit afterwards.

Sunday the rain held off so most of us were able to break camp and get on the road before the showers started up again. 

Hope to see all of you at our next campout - June 8th - June 11th, 2023 at the RV Resort at Carolina Crossroads, Roanoke Rapids, NC. Call them at (252) 538-9776 to make your reservation.

If you are a Tiffin product owner and think you might want to camp with us you are more than welcome to come to any of our events.