Tuesday, September 20, 2011

September 20, 2011

Winnebago Factory Tour

East across Iowa to Forest City. More corn and soy beans. And wind. There are lots of wind turbines in South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa. And today was an especially windy day according to locals.

Forest City is the home of Winnebago RV. We camped in a very nice city park and then to Winnebago visitor center for tour. Very impressive tour of much of the facilities. Unlike many RV makers, Winnebago makes and assembles pretty much every thjing that goes into their RVs onsite except for the basic chassis. VERY impressive to see the detail and quality that goes into these rvs. We toured Monoco RV plant in Oregon last year. Monoco is a very upscale, expensive RV. I was much more impressed with the Winnebago production. We aren't looking for a change but I would look hard at Winnebago if we were.

For those interested here is map of our trip so far.

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