Hello from Wendover, NV

Hello from Wendover, NV

Sunday evening ,  October 27, 2013   (First travelogue of this trip).

Well, at least the title is different on this post {grin}.

As I have noted, I have spent almost all of October in Seattle.  I taught 5 days last week and flew home Friday evening.  While I was flying home, Pat picked up our rented truck.  We left Saturday about noon, on our way back to Seattle.   Our first stop was in Green River Utah, were we stayed at the Holiday Inn Express.

Today we drove a bit less than 300 miles and arrived in Wendover about noon.  We are staying at the Rainbow Casino (map).  We chose Wendover because the hotels are inexpensive, Pat could drop a few coins in the slots, and I could tour the Historic Wendover Airfield.

During World War II Wendover Airfield  was a training base for B-17 and B-24 bomber crews. It was the training site of the 509th Composite Group, the B-29 unit that dropped the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs.  Considering that there has been minimal restoration activity, it is in amazing condition.  When I first visited the facility many years ago, I commented that they could whitewash the barracks and replace some glass, and film a WWII movie.  This site has good details about the history of the airfield (link)

I hope to post a few pictures and more details.  However, it is late and I will only post one photo for now.

Our rented truck in front of the historic control tower

That is all for now.