Tuesday 25th September

On our journey today we particularly noticed the trees changing to their autumnal colours. We had a long drive south down I-5 into northern Oregon.

We visited the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville.
www.EvergreenMuseum.org
Alan had wanted to see the Spruce Goose ever since we just missed it at Long Beach in California about 15 years ago.

If you look carefully you can see Alan looking inside the silver and yellow plane with the Spruce Goose towering over him.

Across the site was the Space Museum which told the tale of the Space Race from the 1940's onwards.
There was an amazing range of exhibits including this unused Mars Rover.

There was also a full sized Titan rocket sunk into the ground so that you could walk around it.

There was a retired Stealth Bomber, which looked very menacing, at one end of the building.