The shop had old tools that the brothers used, a mockup of their work area (complete with an elaborate belt system used to drive their machinery, using an engine they built. their experience with that engine would help them build the one for their plane), replicas of old bikes, and a beautiful tandem bike that was built by them, pictured here:
Beautiful. Anyway, from there we made our last daily pilgrimage to the AF museum, and I got to take pictures of everything I have been writing about. We walked around some more–nearly brain-dead from so much history and cool-plane-seeing the past couple days–basically just to see what else was there. We left the museum around 1:30 (?) and headed home.
On the way out of Dayton, we ate lunch at some chain restaurant that was popular around their, and it left such an impression that I forgot the name of it. Oh well. For dinner we stopped at a McD's that had–I'm serious–more flies than a barn full of horses. They were everywhere. So many of them. They occupied the entire ceiling above the counter, and I mean occupied. They covered and owned it. And for the most part, the rest of the restaurant as well. A lone roll of flypaper, totally covered, stood as a testament to an abandoned attempt to cure the problem. I have no idea how they got a 96 on their health exam. But, they were the only eating establishment we had seen in like 40 miles (we were in the mountains), so we just dealt with it.
We got back home late after an otherwise uneventful trip, and I went to sleep the end.
Here are some pictures:
| The Wright Brothers' shop |
| A cool bicycle rack just outside the shop. |
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