The Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum has been on our “to see” list for quite a while. The fact that it is located at Dulles airport instead of the National Mall is a drawback since that area is a long drive from D & Cs house. Our leaving from Dulles across the Atlantic gave us the perfect opportunity. The floor and ceiling of an old hanger are filled with planes. Among the most famous are a space shuttle that didn’t fly into space, a Concorde, the Enola Gay, and a “stealthy” SR71. A Pan American Clipper was something of a good luck charm for this trip considering the name that we have chosen for this blog. The exhibits are quite good and we learned a lot from the labels and the docents.
We spent the rest of day flying over the Pond, stopping in Dakar for fuel and then spending our first night on African soil at the Peermont Metcourt Suites at Emperors Palace, a very modern style hotel near the airport in Johannesburg. It is adjacent to a Reno-in-its-better-days-style Casino. We enjoyed a buffet dinner including our first taste of barracuda and then sampled the slots taking out more than we put in.
This posting is made from the airport at Maun, Botswana. The man sitting next to us was reading Noam Chomsky
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