Motown GEOFF… Well we drove into a very dodgy area; we thought Betty (our GPS Voice) had gotten lost. We pulled up at the address which were 2 very unimpressive little houses and a big sign. Once inside the pieces started to come together, these houses were the Origi
nal studios that had many many famous young mostly black singers, The Jackson 5, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight and the Pips (who I saw in Vegas with Paul a few years back… still awesome aye Paul) the Temptations Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross and the Supremes and many many more. Our Guide who sung us through the tour was amazing and gave you goose bumps at times with the history of these humble totally untouched original settings. To top it off we all had a sing (yep even me) in the recording studios. What started very low key ended being another gem.
hI its Lauren today we went to Motown. First we watched a movie about Motown and the history. After the movie our tour guide Eric took us up stairs and we saw Michal Jacksons glove and hat. More people came and join our group and he started singing all of these songs that I have never heard before. He took us down to the studio and made us sing and dance and
that was the end of the tour.
Ford Plant tour - Car Guys Turn…Arrived just after lunch and discovered this place is Huge… a small town in its own right. There is a theme park, a museum and a plant tour. Something had to give so the theme park went. First up we went for the Pick-Up Truck (25% of all Fords Sales, GO FIGURE) Manufacturing plant tour. The bus ride took 15 minutes just to get there. The tour starts with a movie look back at Henry Ford and the early days, jeez Henry was a man well ahead of his time, a shame that they
haven’t continued in the same bold fashion since. The share scale of the factory and work-force was mind boggling, Henry doubled everybody’s wages and the whole of the USA showed up for a job. Then you move into the second studio which was a modern take on Ford with loud music, dry Ice, strobe lights and all the glitz, only it kinda didn’t work. Anyway the real tour was actually very good. The conveyor system that passes the car past the stationary workforce that Henry started is still in full flight and very impressive a car comes together from start to finish and they 
output 1500 trucks (not counting the car assembly line) per day. Bernise was consumed with how they were trying to convince us that they were saving the planet with their unexciting grass on the roof display (supposedly very Eco) but she said it was “bull sh*t” as they were producing the worst gas guzzlers on the planet… for sure there’s an irony there. Thomas loved the robotic arm that placed the windshield in… Olivia thought it was cool when the car went over her… Lauren thought the snickers machine in the foyer was the best … girls !
Ford Museum Tour - Geoff was so disappointed in this part in his own words “there’s, chairs, chandeliers and kitchen sh*t”? Yes we all thought this museum was going to be just about cars but it was actually showcasing an overall time line of cars, planes, trains, lights, pewter, jewelry………..etc. So as normal with Museums that Geoff doesn’t get, he did his best impression of Road runner and burnt a sprinting strip through the building, not one AC cobra in sight topped of his impression of the suppoesd car museum, boohoo…wah wah Do us girls care um……NOT AT ALL……he’s got 4 days at Indy 500, a Nascar drive and a couple of car fanatic museums t
o come Yipeee???????????? The museum did display the ex presidential car including the car that Kennedy was infamously assassinated in. The rest of the museum WAS fantastic it was just that we had seen a lot of it in previous museums. Thomas here, my favorite part here was making paper planes the throwing them. I threw mine so far. We finished up there at 5pm, and traveled for 2 hours then stopped for dinner. At this point we found one of the headlights was not working, and the window wipers had also died (Splines stripped from the previous bungee fix up ooops). Geoff sort of fixed the light (swapped the high and low beam plugs over)and on we traveled another three hours and stopped near an RV fix-it-upper-place 50 miles away from the center of Chicago.
nal studios that had many many famous young mostly black singers, The Jackson 5, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight and the Pips (who I saw in Vegas with Paul a few years back… still awesome aye Paul) the Temptations Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross and the Supremes and many many more. Our Guide who sung us through the tour was amazing and gave you goose bumps at times with the history of these humble totally untouched original settings. To top it off we all had a sing (yep even me) in the recording studios. What started very low key ended being another gem.hI its Lauren today we went to Motown. First we watched a movie about Motown and the history. After the movie our tour guide Eric took us up stairs and we saw Michal Jacksons glove and hat. More people came and join our group and he started singing all of these songs that I have never heard before. He took us down to the studio and made us sing and dance and
that was the end of the tour.Ford Plant tour - Car Guys Turn…Arrived just after lunch and discovered this place is Huge… a small town in its own right. There is a theme park, a museum and a plant tour. Something had to give so the theme park went. First up we went for the Pick-Up Truck (25% of all Fords Sales, GO FIGURE) Manufacturing plant tour. The bus ride took 15 minutes just to get there. The tour starts with a movie look back at Henry Ford and the early days, jeez Henry was a man well ahead of his time, a shame that they
haven’t continued in the same bold fashion since. The share scale of the factory and work-force was mind boggling, Henry doubled everybody’s wages and the whole of the USA showed up for a job. Then you move into the second studio which was a modern take on Ford with loud music, dry Ice, strobe lights and all the glitz, only it kinda didn’t work. Anyway the real tour was actually very good. The conveyor system that passes the car past the stationary workforce that Henry started is still in full flight and very impressive a car comes together from start to finish and they 
output 1500 trucks (not counting the car assembly line) per day. Bernise was consumed with how they were trying to convince us that they were saving the planet with their unexciting grass on the roof display (supposedly very Eco) but she said it was “bull sh*t” as they were producing the worst gas guzzlers on the planet… for sure there’s an irony there. Thomas loved the robotic arm that placed the windshield in… Olivia thought it was cool when the car went over her… Lauren thought the snickers machine in the foyer was the best … girls !Ford Museum Tour - Geoff was so disappointed in this part in his own words “there’s, chairs, chandeliers and kitchen sh*t”? Yes we all thought this museum was going to be just about cars but it was actually showcasing an overall time line of cars, planes, trains, lights, pewter, jewelry………..etc. So as normal with Museums that Geoff doesn’t get, he did his best impression of Road runner and burnt a sprinting strip through the building, not one AC cobra in sight topped of his impression of the suppoesd car museum, boohoo…wah wah Do us girls care um……NOT AT ALL……he’s got 4 days at Indy 500, a Nascar drive and a couple of car fanatic museums t
o come Yipeee???????????? The museum did display the ex presidential car including the car that Kennedy was infamously assassinated in. The rest of the museum WAS fantastic it was just that we had seen a lot of it in previous museums. Thomas here, my favorite part here was making paper planes the throwing them. I threw mine so far. We finished up there at 5pm, and traveled for 2 hours then stopped for dinner. At this point we found one of the headlights was not working, and the window wipers had also died (Splines stripped from the previous bungee fix up ooops). Geoff sort of fixed the light (swapped the high and low beam plugs over)and on we traveled another three hours and stopped near an RV fix-it-upper-place 50 miles away from the center of Chicago. 
ahhh glad to see u fellas back on-line - was starting to wonder if you were having too much fun to keep your many blog followers up to date! geoff, i've sent you an e-mail, please have a quick look and reply if poss.
ReplyDeletethe ford museum in detroit sounds awesome - well, at least the car stuff anyway. i'm with you again mr m, keep road-runnering your way past the boring stuff!