August 10, 2009

We just completed a great weekend in Ohio visiting with some of our friends from Ponderosa RV Park where we spend the winters. Bill & Lyndell Martin and Bear drove their motor home from Romeo, Michigan and stayed in the same KOA Kampground. Ron & Anna Hall and Harley live in Huber Heights, Ohio and were our hosts. (Bear and Harley are their dogs and also great friends of ours)

On Saturday, we went to the National Museum of the United States Air Force with Ron and Anna as our tour guides. We started with a tour of the Presidential Planes of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy. While these were comfortable, state of the art planes then, they are small and technologically light years away from the current Air Force One used by President Obama.

Here are a few pictures:

Ron worked on a plane like this while he was in the Air Force.

Ron loaded bombs on a B-52 like this one in Vietnam.

Ran gave us lots of details of various planes he maintained during his military years.

Astronaut Bill Martin.

I believe astronaut Lyndell Martin was enjoying her day.

There is a lot to see so allow plenty of time if you plan to visit here.

After a long day we all were a little exhausted even though according to Lyndell we only took around 7,000 steps on our tour.