This morning we woke up in Red Wing, gorgeous, sunny day, temps in the 50’s to start, going up to high 60’s throughout the day. Red Wing museum and factory tour today.
Oh, and it’s my Birthday today.
Roy and Kathy posing with the size 877 worlds largest boot.
The Red Wing factory shows their pride for being “made in the USA”.
Bob, Penny, Doug, Joanie, Gerry and Kathy at the start of the tour.
They build their shoes in lots of 6.
The shop floor was quite amazing.
Red Wing Shoes has been around for 106 years, there are 3 facilities in the US and they employee 525 putting out 50,000 pairs of shoes per week. They still use the steel cutting dies to get roughly 5 pairs per steer hide.
Each cell has their own sewing operation, it’s really fascinating.
Jerry, Bob, Paul, Doug and Mary .
Red Wing from the overlook.
This guy biked up the hill just to get a group shot with all of us, he’s Red Wings City Manager.
Lunch stop at Slippery’s where Grumpy Old Men was filmed.
Here’s our Grumpy Old Men (just kidding guys), Bob, Paul, Gerry, Jeff, Jim John, Roy, Doug and Jerry in back.
The streets of Wabasha were beautifully decorated for Halloween.
After our stop in Red Wing we headed to Wabasha. Stopped for lunch at Slippery’s on the river. They filmed parts of Grumpier old men in Wabasha and at Slippery’s.
On to Prairie du Chien WI to spend the night. Celebrated my BD tonight with good friends at Ambro Junction BBQ, a wonderful stranger sang happy birthday to me and she substituted “traveling with a zoo”, very clever and not far off. My peeps kept toasting the evening, the staff sent me off with a bottle of wine and life was good.
We put on 160 miles today.
That would be me with my Fried Twinkie, we all shared the bounty.
Looks like another fantastic trip. Must take a lot of work to put all this together.
I know, our kids, Gerry and Lisa appreciate it and are having a wonderful time.
Brigitte