Today was an off and on mostly cloudy day. That was good, as when the sun came out it was hot and bad as it was incredibly humid. A nice breeze, meaning it wasn't in our face helped, but a lot of fluids were consumed!
The morning started with an hour or so at the National Museum of Naval Aviation at Pensacola Naval Air Station. We could have spent hours here, barely seeing a fraction of it, concentrated on the carrier portion. The museum is Smithsonian in quality and has quantity also.
Great displays, good choices of aircraft, from the beginnings to space. In their Hall of Fame, noticed that naval aviators are assigned numbers that are in progression from number 1 upwards. Was interesting to read about The Number One and Two pilots, both born in the 1880s. What changes they saw and helped to facilitate in their lives.
One picture from below was from the wall of the museum, and no it wasn't the ferry that took us from Dauphin Island, it is the USS Constellation, '"4 acres of American sovereignty", that can go anywhere that we need. Massive! I had the chance for an overnight visit on the USS Stennis while it was deployed in the Persian Gulf in 2011, including carrier landing and catapult take off, which helped me appreciate even more this portion if the museum.
Back riding, we worked our way around Pensacola with incredible views of the Gulf, bays and rivers. We actually reacquainted ourselves with our old friend from the west, US Hwy 90. Spent the last half the day on 90 getting to Crestview.
The last portion of the ride varied from mostly flat to some gradual hills towards the end. Some pretty ranches, but mostly trees. Pine and oaks.
The shower rules shown in the picture below were not from our last camping area but from the Guadalcanal display in the museum.
There are still some pictures that I hope download when I get truly connected to good wifi in Tallahassee, but otherwise I am caught up for now. Yeah!
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