We left our campground and headed north to Goshen Indiana for a couple of days. Arrangements had been made to have John take a four hour RV driving class. Several of our friends had taken this one -on -one driving instruction and had recommended this school to us. Our instructor with the RV Driving School Lenny Orr, was attending the Gypsy Journal Rally and agreed to meet with us. On Thursday morning he meet us at an abandoned K- Mart parking lot. The class room was our coach and for four hours Lenny put John through the paces.
Lenny placed orange cones all over the parking lot and had John do all kinds of turns.-driving forward and backwards He showed us how to check our braking system and worked with John on how to better utilize his mirrors. The most challenging maneuvers included backing the coach up in a zig-zag pattern. I was amazed how well John did and I think the instructor was too.
We also traveled through Goshen making lots of right had turns and go onto the freeway for some additional instruction about merging, going down step grades etc.
I appreciated learning how to make better signals for John to follow. This will be very helpful when I'm helping guide him into a campground site. It certainly was worth our time and was a good value. Lenny is very knowledgeable and a great instructor.
We especially appreciated the information about how to utilize the exhaust brakes and how to make sharp turns. Our instructor has been a full timer for many years and had some great advice about this lifestyle and told us a lot about Escapees and birds of a feather chapters.
Here is a picture of Lenny and John after the class. He will also be at the Escapade Rally next week. We are really looking forward to attending.
