Udvar Hazy Center

The Udvar-Hazy Center opened last December near Dulles International Airport as a new part of the National Air & Space Museum. You can never have enough airplane museums. That's what I say. My old flying buddy Bruce quite agrees. We were both Weapon System Officers/Navigators in the Air Force, flying F-4E Phantoms in the Philippines. Now we are old farts boring everyone with airplane stories, just like the old Vietnam farts did to us and the WWII farts before them. We are carrying on the old fart tradition.

The museum is free in theory, but you have to pay twelve bucks to park. It's not like you can walk to it from anywhere because it's way the hell out in the middle of nowhere. That's probably why it wasn't mobbed with crowds while we were there.

We took Bruce's daughter, Nicole, and her pal, Alyssa. They're in the fifth grade. I was surprised that they would be interested but then girls have always like to hang out with Bruce and I. We're cool guys. It's been like a curse sometimes.