Portland for the weekend, On the way we found the Evergreen Airplane Museum in McMinnville Oregon where the Howard Hughes Spruce Goose resides. A very nice museum with lots of planes and space exhibits. The plan was to see the museum and then move closer to Portland however the museum was having a hot air balloon flight over the weekend and they allow RV’s to spend the night in the parking lot! So we saw the museum including one of Pauls favorite planes,
SR-71 Blackbird
One of the world’s fastest aircraft, this high-altitude reconnaissance plane flew at the very limits of the earth’s atmosphere at speeds well over 2,000 miles per hour.
He even bought the souvenir shirt!
This is my favorite!
Or, maybe this one!
Landed!
The museum has 4 large buildings with this one being the indoor water park! We didn’t venture over there as Oregon weather is a bit cool for us and indoor swimming just doesn’t make me excited!
The Spruce Goose, No way can you photograph this one but that is a full size US flag flying above it!
After several hours walking among the planes we enjoyed a 3-D movie about the Universe. The movie was very interesting and the glasses were pretty cool too! Now it is time to relax!
Looks relaxing! Where is Denise?
We had the perfect spot with a nice view of the field where the Balloons were scheduled to fly from; we had a cocktail, some snacks and then the sprinkler system decided it was time to water the trees! It wasn’t very green so I don’t think they water all that often we just got lucky! The chair lying down is covering the rainbird so Paul can continue his Happy Hour! Duke and I headed into the RV which was the only place out of the water and sun!
The water stopped after about an hour and a couple other RV’ers came by to chat and then the rain came! Not very much, just enough to wet the ground and bring us a very nice rainbow!
Two!