We thought that we would do something different today and as we had discovered there was an Aircraft Musuem in the direction of Williams(famous for being on Route 66) so we headed south. The Musuem is still quite new and was in the process of growing but with an excellent collection of aircraft and cars.
They had the Lockheed Super Constellation of General MacArther which he used when travelling in his role in Japan following the collapse of this Country in the Second World War . There was also the only aircraft, a Pitts Special that could land normally and also upside down!!. There was also a great collection of Model T Fords owned by the same guy who owned the airport that the musuem was on. A very interesting visit indeed and much better than expected.
The airport was called Grand Canyon Valle Airport and is a private airfield. It only seemed to have two full time employees, and apart from the airline operating a single helicopter, not like Heathrow at all, this Airport was not troubled by noisy passengers.
Williams, what can I say, is a town which lives off the Route 66 image and is also the start point for the Grand Canyon Railway where the daily train schedule starts at 1015 and finishes back at Williams by late afternoon. This town was so laid back even the restaurants close for lunch.
We didn't buy the T-Shirt but we did walk around for perhaps an hour and tried to visit the Train Museum but yep, you guessed it, it was closed. There is also a small Wild West area where they stage, in the peak season, evening gun fighter shootouts (bit like Brooklyn-really)
It was also interesting that the local newspaper published the school kids menu for the next week, so news must be really tough to come by.!
We finally found a nice diner where we had lunch which was great and good value and then we headed back in the sun to our Hotel near the Grand Canyon National Park.
Tomorrow morning we leave for Scottsdale.
Sorry if there are too many pictures but we like them all
