Each time we visited a Riverbend home the owners encouraged us to make a trip to Riverbend to watch the production of our timbers. With Dan T.'s help we scheduled our visit to coincide with the manufacture of our timber which (finally) was scheduled to begin on Monday, October 11th. The process takes a little over a week so we planned our visit for Monday, October 18th. Since the trip was about 493 miles we decided to include a stop in Pittsburgh to visit Lauren. We packed up our RV and headed to Pittsburgh on Thursday, October 14th excited to see Lauren and our 'wood'!
We had a great visit with Lauren until my phone rang on Saturday morning. Riverbend's General Manager was calling to tell us they had had an extensive fire in their production area early that morning. Fortunately, no one was hurt AND our wood safe! Dan later told us if the fire had been one day later our timber would have been moved to the area that was destroyed. Whew, what a relief! Needless to say our trip to Michigan was off. On Sunday we packed up the RV and headed home, disappointed and unsure if we would have the opportunity to reschedule our visit.
We had a great visit with Lauren until my phone rang on Saturday morning. Riverbend's General Manager was calling to tell us they had had an extensive fire in their production area early that morning. Fortunately, no one was hurt AND our wood safe! Dan later told us if the fire had been one day later our timber would have been moved to the area that was destroyed. Whew, what a relief! Needless to say our trip to Michigan was off. On Sunday we packed up the RV and headed home, disappointed and unsure if we would have the opportunity to reschedule our visit.