RV Travel Trails with Dave and Carol: National Museum of the United States Air Force

While waiting to pick up our new Rockwood tomorrow, we took advantage of the free day today to visit the National Museum of the United States Air Force. Wow! What an incredible museum! The National Museum of the United States Air Force, located at Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio, is the world's largest and oldest military aviation museum featuring more than 360 aerospace vehicles and missiles on display amid more than 17 acres of indoor exhibit space. If you're ever anywhere near Dayton, OH, this place is a must see.

Arranged chronologically in four separate, indoor hangars, the museum displays the rich history our country's Air Force. From the very beginning of aviation to the present, we toured through WWI, WWII, the Korean Conflict, and Vietnam. On display in the WWII gallery was the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Bockscar, the plane that dropped the "Fat Man" atomic bomb on Nagasaki which ended the war. We then continued through the Cold War era complete with Minutemen and ICBM Missiles, the space program and last, the highlight of our day, the Presidential Gallery. We toured Air Force one for FDR, Truman, Eisenhower and the plane that served Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan. We actually stood where LBJ was sworn in after John Kennedy's murder in Dallas. From the first hangar to the fourth is a full 1/4 mile, all indoors. I simply can't say enough good about this place. Oh, and the price?? Free. Best deal you'll find anywhere.

Had a great dinner at a local dinner and now back at our hotel. We'll be getting up early tomorrow morning for an hour's drive up to Russells Point to get the new Rockwood, which we have already affectionately dubbed, "Rocky." And if the trailer's name is Rocky, then obviously our blue F-150 is now "Blue-winkle." Yes, shameless pilfering of names, but it's fun!

More to come tomorrow! The big day is almost here!