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The Allegro Bus 45 OPP Resources EXPLORE YOUR ADVENTUROUS SIDE. Get rolling with an affordable RV loan from Loan Amount APRs* as low as Refinance — Essex Credit, a division of Bank of the West. $50,000+ 3.99% Private Party Purchases Our experienced consultants make getting — $25,000–$49,999 4.29% Purchase Locally or Cross-Country your loan quick, easy and stress-free, so you APR is fixed for the life of the loan. Other rates with different loan terms 4UZ. IT’S OUR CULTURE. can look forward to what’s really important — are available. Rates are accurate as of October 12, 2016. See our website for current rates and terms, as well as financing for Full-Timers Owners of premium RVs built on Freightliner Custom Chassis recognize enjoying your RV. and loan amounts below $25,000. 4UZ as the fi rst three digits of their Vehicle Identifi cation Number. For us, it’s a symbol of pride in our top-quality, American-made workmanship. 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NMLS ID# 19116 Roughing it FALL 2016 VOLUME 13 NUMBER 4 Smoothly October 2016 Volume 13, Number 4 Roughing It Smoothly® magazine is published four times a year by Book Production Resources for Tiffin Motorhomes, Inc., 105 2nd Street NW, Red Bay, Alabama 35582. BPR offices are located at 1403 Cedar Point Way, Monroe, Georgia 30656. Periodical postage paid at Monroe, GA and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send all changes of address to Book Production Resources PO Box 1150 Monroe, GA 30655-1150 6 22 60 This issue of Roughing It Smoothly® has a printed distribution of approximately 27,000 copies, an online distribution of 42,000 copies, and a dealer distribution of 12,000 copies. It was printed by American Printing Co., 428 Departments Features Industrial Lane, Birmingham, AL 35211. Copyright © 2016 by Book Production President’s Corner 4 Dealer Profile 52 The Allegro Bus 45 OPP Resources. All rights reserved. Roughing It ® The RV Corral, Eugene, Oregon • Smoothly is a registered trademark of Tiffin From the Plant 18 Luxurious Comfort that Will Lift Your Psyche Motorhomes, Inc. No part of this magazine See page 6 may be reproduced in any form without the Owner Profile 36 On the Road with Dave & Terri 70 written permission of the publisher. Publisher, Book Production Resources Mike Wells, CEO, Wells Traveling With Your Pets 72 Editor, Fred Thompson Enterprises, Inc. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park Typesetting and Page Makeup, Andy Cargile News You Can Use 74 Copy Editor, Carolyn Thompson Tiffin Allegro Club News 44 • See page 22 National Advertising Director, Dale Cathey Serious Tech Talk 79 Contributing Writers: Fred Thompson, Bob Tiffin Management Team 46 Tiffin, Suzanne Clemenz, Danny Inman, Dave Mark Phillips Sedona & Terri McClellan, Dr. John Pilarczyk, Mary Cover: Great Smoky Mountains Findley, and Sally Moore. • This Place Is Addictive Contributing Photographers: Fred Thompson, From the Road 50 Suzanne Clemenz, Dave & Terri McClellan, Sally See page 60 Moore, Mike Wells, Mark Phillips, Great Smoky Mountains Association, and Mark Richardson. Roughing It Smoothly circulation jumps to 81,000 printed and online magazines. Over 27,000 Tiffin owners are now receiving tion. Color prints are welcome and we will use Serious Tech Talk The Allegro Breeze 31BR is now shipping to dealers. Built on the PowerGlide® Chassis Roughing It Smoothly through the U.S. and Cana- them if we have the space. We do not return col- To address your technical questions to Danny dian postal service. Over 42,000 have chosen to or prints or manuscript. You can also send your Inman, use the postcard bound in this issue, mated with the Cummins ISV5.0 engine with 275 HP/560 lb. torque, the 31BR floor plan offers read RIS online at the Tiffin website. Our deal- “From the Road” contribution by email to fred- send a longer letter to the address on the post- an east-west queen bed with a closet extending across the rear of the coach. Other upgrades in- ers are distributing 12,000 copies in their show- [email protected] You may attach card, or send an email to RIStechtalk@gmail. rooms. Roughing It Smoothly is in its 13th year your images to your email. Images should be at com If you need an immediate answer to a clude a larger shower in a self-contained bathroom, a slide-out pantry, and an optional residential and is the largest magazine published by an RV least one megabyte in size. On the subject line of service problem, you should call 256-356- refrigerator. The PowerGlide chassis brings independent suspension to the shortest diesel pusher manufacturer in number of pages and total dis- the email, please write FROM THE ROAD. We 0261. coach in the industry. tribution. do not open emails without subject lines. OPTIONAL RESIDENTIAL FRIDGE In each issue you will still find two cards for New Subscribers OVERHEAD CABINET sending information to the editorial office in Change of Address If you have just purchased a new Tiffin motor- OVERHEAD CABINET Monroe, Georgia. Using the “From the Road” Please use a standard change of address card home, your name will be added to our mail- FRIDGE SOFA BED card, we invite you to tell fellow Tiffin coach own- from USPS and send to Roughing It Smoothly, ing list automatically. If you purchased a pre- NIGHTSTAND NIGHTSTAND OVERHEAD CABINET ers about your experiences and the special places PO Box 1150, Monroe, GA 30655-1150. You may owned Tiffin motorhome, send the year, brand, OHC you have discovered in your travels. If the card is also change your address online by sending your length & floorplan, your name and address, and TV WITH FIREPLACE not large enough, please type a whole page dou- email to [email protected] First, enter your VIN to Roughing It Smoothly, PO Box 1150, LAV 60"X 80" QUEEN BED BELOW ble-spaced, and mail it to Fred Thompson, Book old address as it appears on your magazine label Monroe, GA 30655-1150. SHOWER WARDROBE OPTIONAL TV OPTIONAL Production Resources, P.O. Box 1150, Monroe, (we must remove your old address before we can GA 30655-1150. Be sure to include your name add a new one). Second, please enter your new Advertisers and address, phone number, and email address three-line address including the zip code. We do To advertise in RIS, contact Dale Cathey at 817- in case we need to edit or ask for more informa- not accept phone calls for changes of address. 247-5147. [email protected] STEP TV ® ® ® BANK OF DRAWERS OVERHEAD CABINET The following names are registered trademarks of Tiffin Motorhomes, Inc.: Open Road , Phaeton , Allegro , Allegro PANTRY BOOTH DINETTE Bay®, Allegro Bus®, Allegro Breeze®, Zephyr®, Roughing It Smoothly®, Pusher®, and PowerGlide®. OVERHEAD CABINET MICROWAVE OVERHEAD CABINET OPTIONAL EXTERIOR TV 2 ROUGHING IT SMOOTHLY 3 PRESIDENT’S CORNER done outside our service bays in Red Bay. mer months. The camaraderie that began ship growth and chapter building, estab- in size from 60 to 130 rigs. Field trips on rallies have become so popular in recent The Tiffin The third year—doing one big event to develop at the local club level and even lished better communications with the buses were arranged to take in the area’s years that they sell out within a week— a year—the club decided to do a rally in more so at the annual rallies, plus their Sideroads publication, and continued with attractions and local entertainment and sometimes much sooner—after they Nashville. Of course, that’s the entertain- loyalty to the Tiffin brand was just amaz- well-planned rallies. At the time Jimmy brought in the regional culture. Games are announced. To be fair to our owners Allegro Club ment capital of the South, and they drew ing. It wasn’t long at all before we began and Gail started, we had an active mem- and ice cream socials, plus themed events who want to attend a rally, the Moores a really big number of owners who drove to see repeat business.
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