On the road again travelling north to visit some more casinos but not before fueling up and also visiting the Museum Of Flight in Seattle. The museum is right alongside an airport and you can sit and watch all type of planes landing outside. Also outside are some vintage planes that are on display as well as a former Airforce One plane, which is the President of the USA's air transport.
Inside the museum is huge, after paying the entry fee I received the tour guide brochure which included suggested walking routes depending on how much time you wanted to spend in the museum. I followed the one hour guide but there is also two and three hour suggestions as well. The displays start with a recognition of the first glider flights made in 1893 by German Otto Lilienthal and have a reconstruction of his glider. His longest flight was of 345 meters but he actually died not long after when he crashed one of his gliders.
Of course there is a display on Orville and Wilbur Wright including a special reconstruction of their first powered flight plane made for the one hundreth anniversary of their first flight.
Following on from them is displays on rockets, jet planes, space flights, modern passenger aircraft and all types of planes, helecopters and military planes imaginal. I will just put a lot of photos below for you to look at that show the museum. You can click on the photos to enlarge them.
They also have a display showing the original building that the Boeing company started in. It shows the old machinery used to build their first wooden structured planes.
Other displays honour the USA military planes used in the various wars of the past 100 years and the flyers who flew them. You can also go to another area via overhead walkway across the road to a covered area that houses many retired planes right up to a 747 jumbo jet.
In all it is very worth will trip to see the history of the manned flights.
Leaving there I joined the freeway and I got caught in a Saturday morning traffic jam. My journey took me past the old site of the Rainier Brewery in Seattle. The buiding still has a Rainier sign on the roof.
finally I was able to get past the traffic jam and headed north on the freeway and along side the freeway was a lot of lakes and waterways and plenty of green countryside as well as other towns.
I then spent the next 7 hours visiting a series of six casinos which were mainly close to the freeway at various intervals. Each had $5 chips to collect and I have a variety of luck gambling but in all made it back closer to break even for the trip.
Special mention to my new friend Spencer whom I met at the bar in the Silver Reef casino, hopefully you figured out how to find the blog. May you never have an empty glass in front of you!
I stayed in the RV parking area of the Silver Reef for the night and wrote this the next morning sitting in the casino having breakfast. The Silver Reef is only about 15 miles south of the Canadian border and all the cash machines in the casin will change Canadian dollars for US dollars in the machine.
Todays chips.
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