In April 2007 we had sold our home in Michigan and moved into our new fifth wheel trailer to start our adventure of full timing and exploring in our RV. We started our blog so family and friends can track us and see what we are up to. You can double clink any picture to enlarge it.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Made in the USA.....a sock factory tour











Well, we haven't done too much since we have been here. Judy has been to Curves in Bloomington a few times, routine meals at some restaurants, cleaned bugs off the RV cap, walked around the campground, watch a fair amount of rain, messing with a leaky tire, visited with neighbors, routine week. Today we went to a sock factory tour, spent over an hour, it was quite interesting. Thousands of socks for the NFL, MLB, NBA and holidays, occupations, animals, colleges, plus socks recycled from soy, plastic bottles, bamboo & cotton, you name it they have a sock for it. It was started in the 1980's by a single mom with 5 kids who wanted to stay home when her son became very ill. She got a $1200 loan to purchase and old old manual sock making machine she put in the basement and 25 years later 140 employees working 3 shifts making a good product in the USA in an old home, former school, and a few new buildings beside the school.