Day 11 Tuscon 29.2.24

This morning Gunther dropped us off in Tempe to collect a hire car. We have a Chevrolet Spark, which is quite small but economical 🤷‍♀️ I have christened it the guinea pig!

We are heading off to do some sightseeing in the Tuscon area. The drive may be a bit challenging remembering that we have to drive on the other side of the road to home.

View along hwy I-10

We visited the Pima Air and Space Museum. 

One happy little man

We took a guided 'tram' tour around the planes outside.

A Warthog and Mustang in training. 

Managed to capture a snippet of one of the passovers. 

Northrop T-38A

The Peacemaker.

Lockheed Constellation. 

Helicopter crane.

After the tour we went in to the Gallery. 

In the B 17 hangar a 100 year old man was giving a talk about his missions over Germany in the plane behind him. It was very interesting to listen to.

We saw one of the in a tour at Charleville airport too.

The Aero Spaceliner Super Guppy.

The Douglas Globemaster. 

3 planes in the sky training. 

1 of the planes that we saw flying was a Warthog.

SR 71 Blackbird 

Marks pics below.

Harrier jet.

Mig29 Fulcrum. 

Stratomaster.

Convair Peacemaker. 

Super Guppy.

An excellent 4 -5 hrs was had here but my feet said it was time to find our accommodation. We are staying at a Motel 6 in Benson. This one is not as good a quality as the one in Anaheim. It's noisy and close to a truck stop but it has a bath which i made the most of. The mountain views are stunning but the photos don't do it justice.

Sunset shots taken from our 3rd floor window.

Our room for a couple of nights. 

Today's temperature got to 17°

The truck parking lot opposite our room. Thankfully we can't hear any of that noise.

Today we drove ~175miles or 280kms.