Larry called the Toyota plant this morning about a tour they give through their plant. They said they had a large group coming, but if we wanted to come in and be put on their stand-by list, they may have room for us. We decided to go on in and try to get in with the scheduled group. At 10:00 there were about a dozen of us waiting in stand-by, but no scheduled group had showed up. They went ahead and took our bunch and later we saw another tram apparently with the scheduled group. This is a huge Toyota plant with a total of about 7.5 million square feet under roof in the various buildings among the 1300 acres. They have about 7,000 employees plus 2000 temps and said they have never had any layoffs. They manufacture the Camry, Avalon, the Venza and the Camry Hybrid here at this plant with the goal of 2000 vehicles a day. They said the Camry has more American made parts than any other car. No pictures allowed.
We came back to the camper for lunch and to check on Penny, then went for a tour of the Buffalo Trace Distillery. This is a small still.
Their tours were given hourly, so we thought we had a pretty good change of getting in. I don’t know what I was expecting, but it was really much better than I expected. The tour guide really made it all very interesting. I guess about all the information I came away with is that all bourbon is whiskey, but not all whiskey is bourbon. The rest of the information went in one ear and out the other, but it was enjoyable, including the taste test. ;-) Larry have more information, but that’s all for me. –Karen
All I will add is that they said: If we stopped production today, they have enough aging in barrels to continue to bottle for another 20 years. - Larry
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