We carpooled together to the Toyota Manufacturing Plant in nearby Georgetown, KY. We were given very specific directions: Long pants, closed toed shoes, no camera or mobile devices of any kind…
So here is all you get:
It’s a massive plant, over 8,000,000 sq. ft., producing over 550,000 cars per year, with over 10,000 employees.
The tour took us through the three assembly lines. Hundreds of robots are taking a roll of sheet steel and turning it into a car. There are self-driving carts which drive through the aisles, delivering extra parts to the robots on demand. It is the future of manufacturing! It was a fun tour!
We then went to downtown Georgetown, which is also the site of Georgetown College. The town is filled with stately houses…
The town is filled with delightful storefronts…
Georgetown is where Elijah Craig first ran a bourbon distillery in 1789; we tasted Elijah Craig bourbon at Heaven Hill a few days ago…
No idea what this building is, but I was intrigued by its form and location next to the river……
Great old Baptist church on the corner…
We had lunch at Fava’s…
We returned to the Villa. There were tours of another museum and the old Capitol building, but we needed to relax and catch up on a few things… Lynda caught up on her reading…
We had another drivers meeting in the evening. I hope one day the drivers meeting takes less time than it does to drive to our next destination…
We returned to the Villa for a nice supper of pulled pork sliders; and an enjoyable time was had by all…
Adventures in the Villa 