Day 108 - Wed, March 20 - Travel from Benchmark Coach & RV Park in Meridian, MS to Lakeshore Custom RV, north of Iuka, MS

 Today we travelled a little over 200 miles to get to Lakeshore Custom RV.

Tomorrow the guys at Lakeshore are going to make a few minor repairs to our coach. The coach parked next to us was serviced today. It is a 10 year old Allegro Bus. The owner is from North Carolina. He got fed up with having dealers work on his coach, he heard about Lakeshore and is now coming here for service. His wife is out in Arizona taking care of her sick brother. Tomorrow he leaves here for a 1,500 solo miles drive to Arizona to join her. (He probably drove 6-700 miles getting here.)

Parked at Lakeshore. 

We arrived around 3PM and had plenty of time to enjoy the awesome weather. We sat outside and read for over an hour.

We are up in the northeast corner of Mississippi. We are about 4 miles south of the Tennessee border and 2 miles west of the Alabama border. In this area the Mississippi/Alabama border is the Tennessee River.

We bought fuel today in West Point, MS. We paid $3.67/gal. That is the most we paid for fuel since we went through Mississippi on our way down, we paid $4.05/gal when we filled up in Missouri before we left. The last two fill ups, on our way back up here from south Texas cost us $3.22/gal and $3.19/gal. Our average cost per gallon for the trip has been $3.52. Our fuel mileage calculates to be 7.1 mph but it is slightly higher than that. I let the coach run for over 20 minutes while parked at Lakewood in Harlingen, just to let the engine warm up and circulate fluids. Also we ran the generator for almost 2 hours, mostly to "exercise it". This coach gets one full mpg less than the 40' 2004 Dutch Star we used to have. I'm sure most of that drop is because the Cummins diesel in this coach has 400 hp with 1,200 #-ft of torque. The CAT diesel in our Dutch Star was quite a bit smaller. It had 330 hp with 860#-ft of torque. Also, this coach weighs almost 2,000# more than the Dutch Star and the Ford Flex we pull weighs quite a bit more than the CRV we pulled with the Dutch Star. The Dutch Star/CAT did everything we wanted but the extra power in the Allegro Bus/Cummins is sure nice.

God is good. I pray that He blesses you and yours. He had blessed me.