5,000 miles and three weeks of TC'ing it.
My July vacation is over and it is back to the daily grind. I took my Arctic Fox 865 and diesel 2011 F-250 on a cross country road trip and loved it from start to finish. The first leg was from Wa...
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67avion wrote:
Ok, you got me with the Stormy Kromer museum. I have three Stormy hats to face the cold winter winds - without bills that the wind could rip the hat away. As you know Stormy was a baseball player who later worked for the railroad. He converted the baseball cap into a hat that the wind on the railroad could not unseat.
Who knew that they'd build a museum to him. But, then, they were far wiser than our generation has become. Stormy solved a real problem and he wasn't one of the designated elites.
Yes, they have a nice display of almost a 100 years of caps and a showroom. They give a daily tour at 1:30pm and we got there late because of road construction. They found a lady from marketing to walk us through the plant and watch a few workers do their thing. Every hat has a serial number and nearly all of them are inspected by one person, it was pretty cool.
I found a red wool baseball cap they had made for a photo shoot in their blem bin and bought it for $10 bucks. It was actually very nice and looked like an old cap from the 1900's.
If you drive thru Ironwood, Michigan stop and say "Hi". We enjoyed stops like this all along the way. It reminds you there is an America left in America.
Once I picked up my wife for the return trip, we planned on 300-350 miles a day. We spent more time visiting in a few places and made one big day in the middle to catch up.
