Family Motor Coach Assn. Rally-Pomona, CA

We arrived at Pomona with the caravan of Monaco coaches and there were five of us that wanted to park together. We had to go to a parking lot and unhook our towed vehicles and, of course, it takes longer for us to unhook, so when I finished and looked up, our friends had already left the lot and were nowhere to be seen! I jumped into the motorhome and headed for the exit gate and asked a few attendants if they saw which way they went and no one knew. So, I hit the street, turned left and hoped for the best! About a 1/2 mile down the road I saw one of their coaches and squeezed in behind him to the dismay of some other folks in traffic. Peg was following me with the car so she had to get in behind me as well. It was a relief to be back with our comrades and going in the correct gate to the Pomona Fairplex. We lost one coach somewhere, so there were four of us left. We parked in Lot L1, the full generator area, after we dumped our holding tanks from the previous stay in Lancaster. So Peg and I, Bill and Sandy, Rod and Jean and Bob and Marlene were parked together. I guess we were all now considered part of the West Coast Contingent!

The Pomona area is very developed and it is only 15 miles or so from Los Angeles. The Fairplex is nicely done and it is a large facility. It has to be to house close to 3500 motorhomes on its grounds.

We had a nice view of some of the snowcapped mountains in the distance. It is a cool look and one I enjoy seeing. Seems like here in California you live in the valley and are surrounded by mountains. We had about five days of seeing the vendor exhibits, looking at new coaches, getting service work done (for us it was a 12v relay that was causing our light dimming problem and a connection retrofit to keep our rear camera monitor from going to black). At this rally, Carefree of Colorado, the actual company, was here and they looked at our slide awnings and authorized all four of them to be replaced. We were headed to Los Vegas in a couple of weeks so we would have it done there.

We videotaped several segments for our American RVer show that will be highlighted on our April show, show #22. The folks running FMCA were very helpful in getting us interviews and Robbin Gould, the FMC Magazine Editor, really put together a nice videotaping itinerary for us.

One other interesting thing at the Pomona Fairplex was the scale model train layout they had there. It was huge! It was fun to watch the multiple trains making their way around the "town" that was created...Our next adventure...Hollywood!