Happy St Patrick's Day - FMCA Day 3

Day 3 of the convention fell on St Patrick's Day.

Carl attended a Cummins engine presentation...

I attended a session on a new RV travel planning tool. (More about trip planning in a later post.)

We stopped by the photobooth to get our picture taken.

On Monday while on our way from Florida to the convention, we had seen this Tiffin motorhome, distinctive due to the decoration on the back. We happened to see it as we were walking through a parking area so I stopped to see it more closely....

There is a grate with straight round tubing over the engine compartment; the owner has put colored wire loom over the bars of the grate to make the flag.

A sign on the fairgrounds that we noticed...

This convention is the 13th ("Lucky 13") FMCA convention to be held here at the Georgia National Fairgrounds and Agricenter. 1945 RVs are here for this convention. 

In 1996, there were 6,632 motor coaches here for the convention -- greater than 3 times the number this convention! At that time, there would not have been readily accessible information on the internet for people to learn about their rigs and how to maintain them. 

Carl and I were wondering how the topics would have differed from the sessions we are attending -- still there would have been sessions on RV safety, engine maintenance -- but there would be nothing on internet tools or lithium batteries. KOA and Good Sam probably would have been here, probably other campgrounds or localities would be in the expo area to encourage people to come visit them.

We got green flower leis when we were in the information center which we donated to Miss Kitty when we got home!

This is a view of the fairgrounds and *some* of the 1900+ RVs here (not all -- our parking area is not included!).

Some additional numbers presented on Friday night

Friday evening's entertainment was billed as country music...

Kenny Ray Horton and the Vagabonds

Kenny Ray did part of the show by himself (we honestly liked him by himself a bit better than with the band)...

... though there was one young lady (20 years old) in the band who was pretty amazing -- Addie Levy.  She played the mandolin and fiddle and sang. Kenny Ray said that she was in Dolly Parton's Christmas show on TV this past year. She and one of the other band members played "Devil Went Down to Georgia" (the other band member played "the devil's" fiddle part). She is from the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia (https://www.addielevy.com/).

Friday was very rainy -- we're hoping the grounds dry enough or are solid enough that everyone can get out on Sunday morning!