Friday, September 23, 2011
Gay Sept-22-11
7:35 AM | 
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Sharp's Travels
We were on the road at 9:15 am with the motorcycle headed for Bowling Green to do the Corvette Factory tour and what a beautiful day for a motorcycle ride. We were an hour early for the tour, wanted to be sure we got a ticket to get on a tour. It worked out really well as we were on the first tour and watched a 45 minute video on how the corvette is built along with the motors. By watching the video it helped to understand how things were done when we took the tour. Well we just started the tour and all of a sudden the loud speaker said to evacuate the building. So everyone had to leave and go across a parking lot and wait by the fence until everyone was accounted for. While we were waiting for the all clear signal we looked at all the corvettes waiting to be shipped out, there must have been over 400 of them. Well we got the all clear signal and it turned out to be drill. So we headed back inside and started the tour again. The tour was amazing and I was ready to take it again after we got done. There was so much to see and not enough time to check everything out. The tour was a little over an hour long. I would recommend it for anyone coming through the area. Of all the colors they make black is the most popular and white is the least popular. 40 percent of the corvettes have automatic transmissions. They make on an average of 80 cars a day and about 28,000 a year. After the tour I now have one more thing on my bucket list. It was around 1:30 pm when we left the factory and took some back roads back to the campground. Our next stop was at Cross Plains where we stopped at an old drug store that had an old soda fountain. We had a chocolate shake and a chicken pita sandwich for a late lunch. Then we had to go across the street to an old store so Cheri could do some shopping, she was a good shopper as she didn’t buy anything. Then we continue on our ride through the country side taking pictures of old barns. We saw one barn that we were sure was on fire because of all the smoke that was coming out of it. Then we saw several more barns smoking and realized they were tobacco barns and the smoking is part of the tobacco process. It was around 4:30 pm when we got back to the 5th wheel. We had some time to relax before our baroque pork and chicken dinner here in the campground and live county music afterwards. It was another wonderful day that God made for us.
I have uploaded pictures of the day. No pictures from inside the corvette factory as they don’t allow any cameras, backpack or phone inside the plant. Click this link https://picasaweb.google.com/sharpstravels then click on album: Corvette tour ride.
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