Robert, Joy and Walt at Oakes cabins
We went to the Corvette assemply plant near Bowling Green for an 11:30 AM tour of the plant. The tour lasted an hour and was 3/4 of a mile long. The assembly was interesting because 99% of the car is put together with hand labor. Almost no robots, unlike the pictures I've seen of Japanese auto assembly lines. We're even sadder that we missed out on the Toyoto tour at Georgetown. They described in minute detail how each of the three models of the line were assembled and what the specs were, etc I'm a poor connoisseur of such things and all the statistics flew in and out of my head except it is clear these cars are capable of very high speeds, but, I ask where can they drive 200 mph?
After the tour we went to the Western Kentucky University to visit the library and museum. We parked in front of the "Welcome" center which turned out to be the library/museum. There we were issued a parking permit. The lady inside pointed out a couple of places to eat; we went to the Student Union where they had a large buffet and all-you-can-eat for $6.58. It was quite a find. During our lavish lunch it absolutely poured outside and, of course, we had left our rain gear in the car and walked to the Student Union. We didn't hurry with lunch and it actually stopped raining long enough for us to return to our car and the library/museum. We spent about an hour there, until it closed at 4 PM. I didn't find it very interesting. The museum was about on a par with the Longmont museum, although I found some of the Victorian exhibits quite interesting.
We stopped at a grocery on our way back from Bowling Green and Joy bought corn and a pie. We had clam chowder and corn-on-the cob (corn, loose shuck, in Kentucky speak) and pie and ice cream.
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