Very exciting day today. Toyota plant tour this morning. Some toast and a couple cups of not bad coffee. I also topped it off with a couple glasses of juice since hydration has been a problem the last couple days what with long hours in the saddle and this heavy motorcycle jacket on 90+ days.
Goodbye to the awesome folks at the motel front desk then a few miles down the street to the Toyota plant. A huge tour bus of folks from a Christian tour group beat me in, but it turned out fine since they all went ahead. Toyota has always made Camry's also make Avalons. They recently added a couple Lexus high end cars and are just this month starting to build RAV4 Hybrids here. I did notice some battery packs under the back seat of some of the cars which must be the hybrids. They run you through the plant in small open cars, 16 per car. There were probably 50 people total and like a few years ago when my brother and I did the tour here, you see raw steel rolls get turned into nice finished cars, one every minute. Great tour. These guys do lean right!
Then back out and south on 75 toward Tennessee. It was extremely dry here in Kentucky and all those beautiful grass lawns and pastures were completely burned. As I got into TN, it got a but greener in the mountains but got drier as I got in to southern Tennessee. Google maps took me right to Gregg's front door and we ran out for a quick errand and then a long night of catching up. They moved here a year ago and chose a nice town to retire in with some of their kids and grand kids nearby. The Tennessee River runs right through here and there is a huge TVA dam here which I assume makes power. Slept like a log after my third 97 degree day.
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