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Michelin RV ad.indd 1 1/13/12 11:54 AM Roughing it Smoothly October 2013 Volume 10, 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, GA 30656. Printed in the United States of America. Postage paid at Bolingbrook, Illinois 60440. Postmaster: Send all changes of address to Book Production Resources 1403 Cedar Point Way Monroe, GA 30656. 6 This issue of Roughing It Smoothly® has a distri- bution of approximately 49,000 copies and Owner Profile 35 a dealer distribution of 11,500 copies. It was Departments Ray & Pat Ciemniecki printed by Quad Graphics, Inc., N63 W23075 State Hwy. 74, Sussex, WI 53089. Copyright © 2013 by Book Production President’s Corner 4 From the Plant 38 Resources. All rights reserved. Roughing It Service Appointments vs. First Smoothly® is a registered trademark of Tiffin Come, First Served From the Road 40 Motorhomes, Inc. No part of this magazine may be reproduced in any form without the RV Healthy 16 Allegro Club News 42 written permission of the publisher. Publisher, Book Production Resources News From Red Bay 18 Traveling With Your Pets 44 Editor, Fred Thompson; Typesetting and Page Makeup, Andy Cargile; Copy Editor, Carolyn Tiffin Management Team 21 On the Road with Elaine 45 Thompson. Contributing Writers: Bob Tiffin, Fred Thompson, Norman Spray, Danny Chris Melvin: He Thrives on News You Can Use 56 Inman, Elaine Austin, Dr. John P. Pilarczyk, Gail Designing New Motorhomes Johnson, and Sylvia Tarnuzzer. Contributing Serious Tech Talk 62 Photographers: Fred Thompson, Elaine Austin, Dealer Profile 24 The 2014 Allegro Bus 37 AP on Rhonda Spray, Keith Hudson, Texas State Campers Inn Cover: Railroad, Jimmy Johnson, and Constellation the Linn Cove Viaduct. Photography Imageworks. by Hugh Morton 10 Years of Publishing Roughing It Smoothly With this issue (10:4), we complete our tenth esting may be the interviews of Tiffin owners. and added a sequel about making maple year of publishing Roughing It Smoothly. We You are a very diverse group who have had syrup. He has written great stories about the began with a 32-page plus cover issue that amazing careers and done interesting things Four Corners, the Mississippi River Road in featured a 2004 Phaeton. As the years have with your lives. We have also told you about Minnesota, and with this issue, Oklahoma passed quickly, the content has been enlarged the people at Tiffin Motorhomes who build and its lake country. He can tell you about to as many as 72 pages, and with this issue, your coaches, each of them bringing unique steam engines all over the U.S. based on his 80 pages. It has been exciting to document skills to create a product that you will enjoy research to write “Riding the Rails.” the developments of Tiffin Motorhomes as for many years. We have verified the endur- In “Serious Tech Talk,” Danny Inman they offered two new brands with the RED ability of Tiffin motorhomes after talk- has answered hundreds of your questions and the Breeze, the PowerGlide chassis, cre- ing with some who are driving 30-year-old about your coaches from his 39+ years of ative floorplans, new slide-out construction coaches, and there are probably some of you experience with TMH. If he didn’t know techniques, residential design and conve- who could best that record. the answer, he spent hours calling everyone niences, state-of-the-art entertainment, You have enjoyed the stories and travels he knew until he found the answer. His col- elegant interior décor, and the largest full- of Norman Spray, who with his wife, Barby, umn is the first thing that many of you read body paint plant in the RV industry. Tiffin’s took you on a dangerous trip down the Cali- when you receive RIS. innovation in roof systems, fiberglass, and fornia Baja to find his long lost cousin. While Elaine Austin left her real estate profes- solid surface countertop manufacturing has on a trip to Vermont to do a story on the sion and found a new calling interviewing placed their brands ahead of the competition Fall color, his beloved Barby died in her sleep owners for her vignettes. She delights in year after year. from a cerebral hemorrhage. Like the trained discovering facts about their travels. Dr. Over the decade, RIS content has expand- journalist that he is, Norm finished the story John Pilarczyk has educated those who ed with new features. One of the most inter- which was published the following Spring travel with pets about the health problems The following names are registered trademarks of Tiffin Motorhomes, Inc.: Open Road®, Phaeton®, Allegro®, Allegro Bay®, Allegro Bus®, Allegro Breeze®, Zephyr®, Roughing It Smoothly®, Pusher®, and PowerGlide®. 2 FALL 2013 VOLUME 10 NUMBER 4 46 76 Features • The Allegro Bus 37 AP Luxurious and Thoughtful Design. See page 6 • New for 2014 See page 30 • Oklahoma! Where the Wind Still Blows Free But Water Covers Much of the Land. See page 46 • Riding the Rails Riding the Piney Woods Steam Excursion. See page 58 • Revisiting the Blue Ridge Parkway See page 76 and symptoms they may notice in their be- Maine to California, from Texas to Yellow- You may also change your address online by loved fellow-travelers. stone, from Florida to Minnesota. We have sending your email to [email protected]. Andy Cargile joined our staff in 2006 to climbed mountains, rafted rivers, and flown First, enter your old address as it appears on bring his skills using the Adobe programs to in helicopters to create stories we hope you your magazine label (we must remove your address our color, typesetting, and layouts. enjoyed and used to plan your own trips. We old address before we can add a new one). His 20 years of experience, patience, and tal- hope to bring you many more issues. Second, please enter your new three-line ad- ent have made huge improvements in the – Fred and Carolyn Thompson dress including the zip code. We do not ac- quality of our magazine. cept phone calls for changes of address. To make the 40 back issues of Roughing Serious Tech Talk It Smoothly more useful, I plan to create an To address your technical questions to Dan- New Subscribers index to help you find resource material. If ny Inman, use the postcard bound in this is- If you have just purchased a new Tiffin mo- you don’t have the back issues, you can find sue, send a longer letter to the address on the torhome, be assured that your name/ad- them on the Tiffin website. Lewis Communi- postcard, or send an email to RIStechtalk@ dress will be added to our mailing list auto- cations is implementing a viewer that will be gmail.com If you need an immediate an- matically. We receive a new sales report every much faster and make the back issues easier swer to a service problem, you should call quarter. If you purchased a pre-owned Tiffin to read. 256-356-0261. motorhome, send the year, brand, length & Carolyn and I have enjoyed writing and floorplan, your name and address, and VIN producing the magazine. It has been an excit- Change of Address to Roughing It Smoothly, PO Box 1150, ing adventure to visit and write about some Please use a standard change of address card Monroe, GA 30655-1150. 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