Moved on to Tucson

Yesterday we left Quartzsite and arrived in Tucson shortly after noon.

We are now at the Beaudry RV Park. We got settled in and went over to the Beaudry RV dealer to check out some of the motorhomes. Being that they are in chapter 11 they are willing to take just about any offer to move inventory. Some of their last year models are going for close to ½ price. To bad we aren’t in the market for a new motorhome.
Today we headed over to the Pima Air & Space Museum. The Museum was quite impressive. They have Docents that were pilots that actual flew some of the aircraft during the wars so they had some interesting bits of fact.

There have President Kennedy’s Air Force One, an SR-71, several B-52 bombers, and many others. From there we caught a tour bus over to the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.

This is where they store thousands of military aircraft. Some are there for future use, some are used for parts, and others are being disassembled for scrap. One of the interesting things is that this is where they are cutting up B-52s in agreement with the arms treaty. They have a giant guillotine that chops them up, and then they paint a big number on top and the Russian satellite flies over to take inventory. Then they do the same with their planes and our satellites take inventory of theirs.
We have 3 more days here and plan to do more touring of the area.