Gail & Mike Z, Joe, Walter and I rode out the Pima Air Museum this morning. This location has one of the largest collections of civilian, military, and experimental aircraft anywhere in the world.
There are many large hangars dedicated to a particular variety of aircraft plus outdoor storage for many hundred more.
The docents will give you more information than you ever wanted to know about each aircraft. To see everything, you could literally stay days there.
On the way home, we had a delightful lunch at the Hotel Congress.
In 1919, Hotel Congress was built to serve the growing cattle industry & railroad passengers of the Southern Pacific Line. The Congress of the 1920s was the perfect shelter for genteel travelers and high-rollers fresh from the East. Hotel Congress could have continued its charming existence as just another place of lodging for road weary guests, except that the date of January 22, 1934 has forever stamped its historical mark upon this edifice. A fire started in the basement of the hotel and spread up the elevator to the third floor. This fire led to the capture of one of the country’s most notorious criminals — John Dillinger.
Additionally, a number of us visited the Cycling Expo in honor of the Tour de Tucson that is running this weekend.
No comments:
Post a Comment