One of our plans for this trip is to tour a variety of factories to see how things are made. If Tim had his way, we would visit every car and truck factory in the United States. Thankfully, we have been able to convince him that we need a bit of variety.
Before leaving Ontario we toured the CTS Television Studio in Burlington, Ontario. We saw the sets of
100 Huntley Street and the
Michael Coren Show.
We also stopped for lunch with our friend Sam in Waterloo. We had a short but good visit and a wonderful lunch at the Mongolian Grill. The Grill is a restaurant where you choose your meat and vegetables, give it to a grill chef and watch it being stir-fried on a large open circular grill.
After a long drive to Flint, Michigan we toured the GM Factory Assembly Plant.
We walked along the assembly line while hundreds of the 2011 Silverado were being put together.
We saw robots welding doors with precision.
We saw the truck frames moving slowly along a route that gradually added the tires, then the engine, the dashboard, the seats, and, finally, the doors.
This plant opened in 1947 and the day we were touring the factory they made their 13
th million truck!
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