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| From Virginia Aviation Museum |
We paid for our senior tickets ($5.50 each) and started browsing around the museum. Our first stop was to view the WWII Dioramas and they were impressive. A lot of work had gone into making the diorama look realistic - like the "smoke" coming from this plane.
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| From Virginia Aviation Museum |
Even though this is not the largest aviation museum we've been too, we were impressed with the planes on display here. As we walked around the museum,
we found a few planes that we had never seen before in other museums and one was the 1936 Vultee V-1AD Special once owned by William Randolph Hearst.
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| From Virginia Aviation Museum |
Another exhibit was the 1928 Fairchild FC-2W2 that was part of the 1928-29 Byrd Antarctic Expedition that in on loan from the National Air and Space Museum.
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| From Virginia Aviation Museum |
Mike took a lot of photos of the dioramas, planes and Air Force Art paintings that are in our Virginia Aviation Museum photo album. I also found on the museum's website a Historic Aircraft Guide that has all the specifications and information on the aircraft in the museum.
After leaving the museum we stopped by the Sam's Club to buy coffee for our Keurig. While I was shopping in Sam's, Mike went to the Lowe's next to Sam's to buy some sediment filters. Mike's had to change our sediment filter about every 3 to 4 days since we've been in Virginia - that's how long they last before they turn dark brown.
We drove downtown to go to The Tobacco Company restaurant for lunch. We found a place to park at a parking deck nearby ($3 an hour) and walked to the restaurant.
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| From The Tobacco Company & Monument Ave |
We were seated on the second floor at a table overlooking the atrium. I ordered the Santa Fe Burger with fries and Mike ordered the Philly Cheese Steak sandwich with fries after hearing about the daily specials. We split up our sandwiches so we could each have half of the burger and Philly sandwich. We topped off our meal with a slice (huge) of Key Lime Pie each. Our server Joe was very attentive as was all of the staff and the food was great ($50 including tip).
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| From The Tobacco Company & Monument Ave |
We asked the hostess, Ellie, if she would take a few photos of us and she even went outside with us to take a photo.
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| From The Tobacco Company & Monument Ave |
We got back to the parking garage a little over the first hour and ended up paying $6 - they don't pro-rate the parking fee.
We next drove west to get to Monument Avenue to look at the huge monuments of Jefferson Davis, J.E.B. Stuart, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
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| From The Tobacco Company & Monument Ave |
Monument Avenue is the only street in the United States that is a National Historic Landmark and to say that the homes there are striking and beautiful is an understatement. The architecture is diverse and ranges from English Tudor, Colonial, Georgian, and Italianate just to name a few - truly jaw-dropping gorgeous! We took a lot of photos of the monuments and some of the homes.
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| From The Tobacco Company & Monument Ave |
By now it was 2:00 and we decided to head back to the campground - Tinker is waiting to have his lunch and is wishing we would get home soon.
We had a Southwind motor home pull into the campground this afternoon around 4:00 and they are just spending the night here on their way north from Okeechobee, FL. We met the couple, but their names escape me right now.
We got an e-mail a few minutes ago from our friends Mike and Gayle who are visiting Alaska this year. They are in Watson Lake at the Signpost Forest and found the Camp Rucker sign Mike put up there last year and sent us a photo of it.
I wonder how long it took them to find it among all the thousands of signs there, but we did put it on the front row so it may not have taken too long to locate our sign.
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