Trip South - Tucson, AZ - week 1

 We must be close - we pass the Air Force Base

 

We finally arrive at our home for the Winter - Tucson Meadows/Winterhaven RV Park

We get a really nice site with an Olive tree in the back

It's a really nice little Park and the people are friendly.  Average age of the Mobil Home Park is 82, but some of them are hard to keep up with!

The RV Park facilities

We have access to all the amenities of the mobile home park too.

My favorite is the Pool!

 

The Air Show must be coming up

 

 

One reason for coming to Tucson for the winter is that Gary uses the VA Hospital here for his medical

 

 Tucson and I usually walk the Wellness trail while we wait.

We get to go to our favorite breakfast spot- Jerry Bobs!

Friends invited us to go to the Airshow with them

It is a hot sunny day so most people are seated in the shade under a plane's wing

We find a spot

Good information to know

You can tour the inside of the planes.  We went in the Cargo Plane - Lockhead CM-5 Super Galaxy

It has a wing span of 222' 8" and is 247' long.  It can travel at 518 mph.  It can go from California to Japan while carrying 120,000 lbs.  It flies with a crew of 7 with a maximum weight of 840,000 lbs.

 

 

Gary gets comfy

 

 

Looks like he found his next tow vehicle 

The Air-force Guys get the best spots!

After shock Jet Fire Truck smoke behind the Thunderbirds.  It can travel up to 407 mph and runs off of two Rolls-Royce Bristol Viper jet engines, which together make 24,000 horsepower.  It raced a jet airplane and it was too close to call,

 The Thunderbirds didn't perform until the last 1/2 hour

 

 

 

 

 

Some videos

Flying upside down

It was hard to watch and get photos because they kept flying into the Sun

Despite the heat, we had a good time.  Gary even had them make this for me!

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Skies have been most blue and temps in the 80's.  But when there are clouds, they are pretty

and certainly help with the sunsets