Kentucky is known for its horses and the best place for a tourist to experience Kentucky horses is at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington. The place is massive. With white fences, green pastures, and horses, horses, and more horses everywhere you look.
Have you ever wondered where champion horses retire? One place is here. They have a Hall of champions where several living champions are stabled. The history of each horse is presented while the horse is being shown.
The Toyota manufacturing plant tour in the Lexington facility is great. This facility is more than 7-1/2 million square feet of buildings on I don’t remember how many acres. Thankfully we didn’t have to walk for this tour. Tour trolleys carry you from one manufacturing process to the next. The shop floor is filled with robots that weld, paint, punch, and place all the parts necessary to build a car. Little robot carts automatically carry parts from the storerooms to the line, guided by wires embedded in the floor. This is truly a site to see. I wonder if American auto manufacturers will ever be able to catch up with the Japanese manufactures. Sorry, they don’t allow pictures except in the visitors’ center.
In keeping with our decision to always have reservations for Friday and Saturday nights, we are staying at the KOA in Louisville, KY. What can I say… it’s a KOA. They are consistently mediocre. Kind of like the McDonalds of RV Campgrounds.
Have you ever wondered where champion horses retire? One place is here. They have a Hall of champions where several living champions are stabled. The history of each horse is presented while the horse is being shown.
Statues and monuments dedicated to past champions cover the grounds. We watched as trainers worked with horses. We even took the 10-minute horse-drawn trolley ride.
We spent 3-hours here and we would have spend several more hours just wondering around the pastures and fields but we had to leave because we had reservations for the Toyota plant tour.
The Toyota manufacturing plant tour in the Lexington facility is great. This facility is more than 7-1/2 million square feet of buildings on I don’t remember how many acres. Thankfully we didn’t have to walk for this tour. Tour trolleys carry you from one manufacturing process to the next. The shop floor is filled with robots that weld, paint, punch, and place all the parts necessary to build a car. Little robot carts automatically carry parts from the storerooms to the line, guided by wires embedded in the floor. This is truly a site to see. I wonder if American auto manufacturers will ever be able to catch up with the Japanese manufactures. Sorry, they don’t allow pictures except in the visitors’ center.
In keeping with our decision to always have reservations for Friday and Saturday nights, we are staying at the KOA in Louisville, KY. What can I say… it’s a KOA. They are consistently mediocre. Kind of like the McDonalds of RV Campgrounds.
