Day 6 – Aeroplanes, missiles and a hike (29 June 2016)

First thing this morning we went for a hike in the Sabino Canyon. This was about a 30 minute drive from Tucson.

It was crazy hot already. The lady in the tourist office warned us about rattlesnakes, The venomous Gila Monster (big lizard) and mountain lions. Luckily we didn’t see any of these. We did see cute little chipmonks, some lizards and a roadrunner.

hot

big cactus

cute chipmond

large lizard

We looked around the Pima Aircraft and Space museum. Was really hot.

Air Force One used by JFK and Johnson

My plane 🙂

Then we checked out the Titan 2 missile from the Cold war. There were 54 of these around the country, sitting ready to nuke the rest of the world if prompted. The control centre and the missile have been left exactly as they were in the 60’s (minus the nuclear warhead of course).