SEASONAL

Seasonal Campers, Amazon’s term for RV’ers like ourselves that work the CHRISTmas peak season for them, when the massive black Friday orders start rolling in.

A news team from ABC television was at the Green River State Park Campground interviewing RV’ers that work for Amazon and at the plant shooting video footage. Here is a link to the Diane Sawyer News Broadcast.

ABC News, Seasonal Campers, Diane Sawyer

Our campground, Indian Ridge, isn’t too far away from the State Park. We drive about eight miles each way, to and from work.

Want to learn more about the life style ? Here is a link to the Workamper News Forums. Just choose a user Name and Pass word, then scroll down to the Amazon workers forum at the bottom of the page. It is pretty interesting reading and gives quite a bit of insight to the life style. Here is the link:

WORKAMPER NEWS FORUMS LINK

We have our CHRISTmas tree up now, it’s on the desk in the office slide out. The toy dog is barking jingle bells. He, he, didja’ think ya’ would get through the season without having to hear that ?  Here is a look:

Our 2010 CHRISTnas Tree with Jingle Bell dog

Merry CHRISTmas from Campbellsville Kentucky !

ART’s

Across from the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green Kentucky there is a really cool auto memorabilia place right across the street. Their clever use of neon and gas pump sign lighting is worth the visit, just by themselves.

It was a overcast, rainy day and a great day to spend inside looking at all of the nifty stuff.

Talk about a trip down memory lane !

Art’s Automotive is a great place to visit. There are lot’s of one of a kind auto collectible’s there.

ASSEMBLY

Our first stop of one sight seeing day was the General Motors Corvette Assembly plant in Bowling Green Kentucky. Every Corvette built in America is made right here.

Front entrance.

If you aren’t in a Chevrolet vehicle you might have to park and walk quite some distance.

Our Ford Dually really stood out when we arrogantly disreguarded the signs and parked much closer to the tour entrance.

The tour was really great. Looking at the various stages of assembly was quite an eye opener. We can now tell the difference between the various performance levels of Corvette’s, and believe me there is a large difference.

MUSEUM

A heavy rain storm passed through the Indian Ridge Campground at 0415 hours, waking us up. We got an early start on the sight seeing day off from work. We had plans to tour several places in Bowling Green Kentucky.  One of those places was the National Corvette Museum. Here is what our arm Band admission’s looked like.

Note our personal favorite in the museum, a pristine 1957 Vette, in the background. The arm bands and the admission were free for Veterans as a part of their thirty days long, Veterans appreciation month. The great aluminum bodied 1953 was a crowd pleasing eye catcher.

Those classic first vette lines, caused people to stand and look for long periods of time, just soaking in the simple beauty.

Don’t ya’ just love them headlight grilles ?

VOLTAGE

The quality of the shore power connection varies widely as we travel across our Nation.

These photos taken at the Indian Ridge Campground in Campbellsville, Kentucky.

Here is the voltage with nothing turned on. Yep, looks good, but   .   .   .   .  .   .

Here it is with two electric heaters on. Pretty bad, Huh ! Now, since we know this, we operate our various systems differently. A purely resistive load can survive such low voltages better than motors and control circuits can. Because of that we won’t risk running our roof air conditioner with the heat strip. But the heating elements for the refrigerator and the water heater will likely be ok.

We also try to keep this test light plugged in. It tells us if we loose ground to the trailer or, maybe the neutral becomes intermittent, as well as other functions. Strangely, we seem to find an intermittent neutral more often than we expected as we travel about. Click to enlarge photo to read the label.

In this photo, Betty’s crock pot and one heater are on, note the voltage.

CARS

I love to look at old cars, rusty or restored, Show pieces or daily drivers, but, my favorite of all time is the Dussenberg. There wasn’t one here, but it was a good museum with many that the owner drives on road trips and parades.

The Museum is located in amongst his several dealerships and car lots, and many of his cars are at home still.

This beautiful Model T is ready for the road !

Note the lights and the fuel container on the running board. A $50 option then that was passed by, often times because of cost.

What a wonderful and distinctive sound this engine can make.

What ! No shift lever ! Yeh, pedals did it !

Also in this museum was a Pierce Arrow similar to the one that Grandpa Anderson cut the back off of to make into a  flatbed  pickup truck that they traveled back to Arkansas in, from Racine Wisconsin. He had been working there for the Case Tractor Company. They traveled with furniture piled high on it. It was traded for 40 acres of bottom land, to someone wanting to go to California. Yes, times was tough in them Arkansas hills back then.

For many years I still had the leather cased tire gauge that came with the Pierce Arrow. Somehow it disappeared along life’s twisting path.

COKE

You know, as in Coca Cola, not as in Cocaine. Well, not since the old days, anyhow. In Elizabethville Kentucky is a great Coca Cola Museum. Here is a look at a few of our photos. There is so much to see here that we took way too many photos. This first video is of a 1930’s electric Coke sign. Turn your audio up and listen to that mechanical contactor.

1930’s Coca Cola Sign

Right as you come in the door is this grand old Model A Coke Truck.

And it just got better and better after that !

The Coke Fountain where we enjoyed a .05 cent Coca Cola !

Here is Betty getting ready to order our nickel Cokes.

Cool carved wood museum sign.

Read this very early Coke clock’s inscription. No doubt, it’s from the early days when there was a small amount of cocaine in the formula.

Clever animated Coke can video.

Star wars R2D2 as a Coke Can

Coke sign in the men’s room.