It’s the weekend, so a relaxing day today! After breakfast we headed out to Hill Air Force Base just outside Salt Lake City. They have a museum there, and today was “open aircraft day”. What’s more the price was right — free!
We had about a 4 hour drive to get there, again through a mix of scenery from flat to mountainous. It appears that Lyn and I have different interpretations when it comes to “boring” scenery. Evidently anything less than mountains smaller than Ben Nevis is flat and boring according to Lyn. I found the flatness and small hills quite interesting. The outcome of boring scenery is the production of many knitting and sewing crafts!
We crossed into Utah after crossing the Continental Divide a couple more times! Highest elevation we reached today was 7,500 ft.
Boring
Getting Interesting
Getting More Interesting (Train)
The railway followed the road for much of the trip, and was very well used, sometimes with only a few minutes between trains. Many have 5 engines hauling them, and on one, where we counted, there were 157 rail-cars.
Finally Getting Interesting!
We reached Hill AFB around lunch time, and although it was busy we managed to find a parking spot quite easily. There are a number of “old” aircraft parked outside, many of these were types that flew into the local RAF airfield when I was a teenager. The thought of crossing the Atlantic at 9,000 ft at 200 MPH as a passenger in one of theses makes even the lowest of the low cost airlines look like first class!
Pictures below, identify them if you can!
#1 (Triple Decker!)
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
Having a bit of down time now as we were in the hotel earlier than usual. Tomorrow Lyn has some scenic drives organised for us.