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After we left Gatlinburg, we went to Huntsville, AL for the night where we went to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. The Space and Rocket Center is home to one of the three remaining Saturn V's and one of the ~5 remaining V-2 Rockets. The Space and Rocket Center is also the home of Space Camp (you m...

Miramar Beach, FL, Ocmulgee Mounds, GA and Chickamauga Battlefield, GA Miramar Beach, FL / Point Washington State Forest: After Huntsville, AL, we went to Miramar Beach, FL. We stayed at Camp Gulf and several sites were directly on the beach! While we were here, I also saw the Blue Angels fly ...

After Luray, VA we went to Gatlinburg, TN for three weeks. This post includes the highlights of several days. October 8th 2022: Our first hike was the Appalachian Trail to Mount Kephart via the Jumpoff Trail. The trail starts at Newfound Gap (in the western part of the country, it would be New...

After Boston, MA, we went to the Washington, D.C. metro for a week. While in D.C. we went to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA, right outside of Washington Dulles International Airport. This museum is one of the two locations of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. While there we saw...

After Washington, D.C. we went to Luray, VA where we went to Luray Caverns one time and Shenandoah National Park three times. October 2nd 2022 On the day we arrived, we went to Luray Caverns where we walked 1.25 miles of paved trail throughout the cave. The cave was discovered in 1876 and is o...

F-105 Thunderchief "Thud" bombing North Vietnam The Vietnam War started in 1955 and ended in 1975. The U.S. involvement of this war was between 1965 and 1972, and again in 1975. The U.S. Air Force operated quite a few different aircraft in the Vietnam War theater. This post is about the main on...

The Wild Weasels is a group of elite airmen who mission requirements are to be the first aircraft in on a bombing mission and the last ones out of the mission area. They also are tasked to destroy any SAM (Surface to Air Missile) launching sites before any aircraft get shot down. The Wild Weasels we...

After Bar Harbor, ME we went to Boston, Massachusetts for several days. While in Boston, we walked seven miles of the Freedom Trail throughout Boston stopping at in order of this list below. When we first went to the U.S.S. Constitution, the oldest ship still commissioned in active service with any ...

The Red Eagles (as the 4477th was know as) primary mission was to teach pilots the abilities of the MiG's and how to beat them in a dogfight. The legend was that the name 4477 is likely from the first commanding officer, who was 44 in 1977, the year that they were made a fight. The Red Eagles were b...

After we left Grand Island, NY we went to Albany, NY for the night, then, after Albany, we went to Portsmouth, NH for several nights. Then, we went to Bar Harbor, ME for a week. The following dates are what we did there. September 14th 2022: On our first full day, we hiked to the top of the Be...