Local Stuff & Road Tripping

B-17 Sentimental Journey. You could fly in the plexiglas nose for $700

P-51 Mustangs

1963 Ford Fairlane Police Car

Hotel Connor in Jerome Arizona

We thought this was interesting. Are those bugs in there??

The View Down the Hill From Jerome

Just a short blog to get caught up again before I forget what we've been doing! On Sunday we went to the Bass Pro Shop in Mesa. It is a HUGE sporting goods / outdoor recreation store. It makes REI in Seattle look small. It has a lot of stuffed and mounted animals. Snakes, Deer, Mountain Goats, Cougars, etc. in addition to lots of live fish. There was a catfish in one of the big tanks that must have been at least 30 pounds. We had lunch at a restaurant in the store that had a 10,000 gallon salt water tank with tropical fish. Just like snorkeling in Hawaii sideways. Coincidentally they had excellent fish and chips there. Hmmmm.

On Monday we went to check out the Commemorative Air Force Museum in Mesa at Falcon Field. They had a fully restored B-17 and a B-25 Mitchell Bomber as well as a couple 0f P-51 Mustangs and numerous other aircraft. You can take a half hour ride for $425. You can ride in the Plexiglas nose of the B-17 for $700. We opted out. Falcon Field was a training site for pilots during WW2.

Yesterday we took a road trip to Jerome Arizona, which is north of us near Sedona. Jerome was built in the mid 1800's as a copper mining camp. It operated through the 1950's, and there was enough copper mined there to give everybody in the world (at the time) 13 pounds. that's a lot of copper. The town is built on the side of a steep mountain, and became a ghost town in the 60's. Now it's alive again and booming with tourists as it is only about 20 miles from Sedona. We stopped for dinner at an Amish restaurant in Black Canyon City on the way back. Good food. We made it back about 9:00.

Stay Tuned, Ernie