Wednesday June 25,2009
Yesterday was a moving day. Packed up at Middlebury and moved to Detroit/Greenfield Koa in Yipsilanti Mi. Very uneventful move, Weather was hot, lots of traffic and road construction. Arrived about 2:00 pm and set up the trailer and just took it easy the rest of the day. This koa was a plesant surprise, seems to be very nice,clean, have a private lake for fishing and a swimmming area that isn't too deep for the kids with water slide, also a playground. The area where i am is wooded and shady. Good place.

Today i set out for the greenfield/ford museum and rouge ford plant tour. That was the best tour of the factory, only problem was no pics. It was an overhead walkway where you could look down on the floor where they were putting togather ford 150 truck bodies. It is just amazing to see an empty body come in and move from station to have all the parts put in, The beds were assembled on another ilne next to the bodys and the doors were assembled across the room. Bodys and beds came togather automatically and the doors were put on last before going to another area of the plant where the motor and wheels were added, then to testing area. I was facinated as to how the whole thing worked and how sophisticated it was. They had assembled 287 trucks by noon. I've helped build a lot of plants, but this was way above them.
After lunch I spent a couple of hours in the Museum, Lots of old cars and machinery of all kinds. Patrick would have enjoyed this place. lots of historic machinery. Really an educational place Anyhow i took some pics, one of the entrance gate, and one of the area in from of the museum. There were some old memory raisers too. The DC-3 was like the airline that I used to fly from San Antonio to Mcallen when i was courting dee just before we got married. In the afternoon when the sun was hot, there were a lot of thermals over the Texas desert,that old plane shook like a dog that just had a bath, rattled, and the wings flexed up and down, oil came out of the cowling behind the motors is a steady stream, Very comforting flights,The old Ford-Ferguson tractor is just like the one that I learned to drive on about 1943, There was a Studebaker coupe liked the one we had just after we were married and used to move our things 13 times in the first two years,but it was in a dark place and pic wouldnt take the cars are a presidential limo from Roosevelt,the car jfk was riding in when he was shot in dallas, and the car Reagan was using when he was shot,
This whole area is Ford country, Research offices,development offices, battery research buildings, experimental engine biuldings. From the amount of cars around these buildings, you would never guess that the auto industry was in trouble,
Tomorrow I amgoint to the Greenfield village