This week we explore Tucson Arizona in the campervan and share our adventures
including a trip the Pima Air and Space Museum.
Leo you ready? We are all packed up ready to head to down to Tucson. Leo's really
gonna miss this place though, right buddy? all right you ready to get on the road
baby I'm ready all right let's do it
well we got into Tucson yesterday and we have a week packed full of stuff just
saw Star Wars and the last the last Jedi Kait absolutely loved it I'm torn I
loved it yeah I hated it I am an old-school diehard Star Wars fan
and I feel like I need to see this a couple more times to really really
figure out where I stand with it but I have to say this is the nicest movie
theater I've ever been to we paid $5.50 for a noon show of Star Wars
and they had the reclining seats they had beer there maybe we didn't see Star
Wars again okay I just want to get a beer at the theater maybe we could do a
WT our family meet up and instead of camping together we could just go watch
Star Wars I love it all right direction I do I have no idea where tamales are
okay
Chile Relleno, Green Chile and cheese and the vegetable curry.
yeah okay thank you
You love your salsa. I do this is yours
so good I am stuffed if I had one tamale too many but I don't
think that's possible this is true I like the way you think
look what Kate picked up to go with my coffee this morning
a whole half a loaf of bread just for me this sourdough is absolutely amazing so
I have to go check out this bread place for myself and meet the man who made
that loaf I feel like the first time we came to Tucson we completely missed this
part of town we did so while these filters and bacterial cultures leaven
the bread takes about 24 hours start to finish to make the loaves processed I
learn about 27 years ago
because it makes the favorites thanks so much guys I really enjoyed meeting dawn
yeah that was a lot of fun I can really appreciate that the love and passion he
has for the bread thank you I'm surprised you haven't finished the half
loaf I picked up I'm working on it they've got a line outside Cheers
we haven't been up this early in a long time
I haven't had my coffee and even I decided I'd wait until after we did the tour
and Leo is not happy about being up
okay you started we'll just do a quick little briefing here okay this is the
facility underground this building here was not here when this was an active
duty site it was put in for the for the museum okay we're gonna go down 35 feet
to what we call the access portal after we get done with that we're gonna walk
down a short cable way into the launch control center then we're gonna walk
down 250 feet down to level 2 of the silo where you can actually see
we basically offer three tours the one you're gonna get today - the crew's
quarters then we offer one that you're going to get the regular tour then we
would take you down to level seven you can stand up underneath in this one look
up that's about a two-hour tour it's about 20 bucks then we offer our
top-to-bottom take you on every level of this silo it's a it's about a six hour
tour now I'm gonna talk about close by a nuclear detonation several more times
throughout the tour we're talking about a detonation outside of a mile anything
inside of a mile would be considered a direct hit and nobody here would survive
okay any question is up here guys you guys ready to do it yeah in 1977 they
allowed women in this this was the first combat job they allowed women to fulfill
in the Air Force
there were 35 below ground okay entire structure is covered in cleric
steel plate and butt welded together and grounded and would that maybe protect
all the electronics on the inside from electromagnetic pulse which is a lot my
pocket point of your detonation now when he built this place they built it to
protect against three different things glass shop and electromagnet folks we
talked about the appeal the bid was talking about the blast where you guys
are waiting dirty movie when they told you how much your store we three times
well did I beat together can withstand up to 1,000 psi overpressure let me put
that English away if you've got a stick built house and it gets hit by a
hurricane or tornado he's going to be flattened by the 70s eyeball pressure
this is a thousand so it's a pregnant main sponsor silly Iligan being in your
life okay Kate I want you to be the commander Joe you follow me right in
here you've been assuming the consistent commander's chair oh just like home I'm
commander well hit some windows in my house I'm used to that
Joe I'm gonna make you an honorary first lieutenant Kate I'm gonna make you an
honorary air force me oh now let me tell you what that does
for you guys okay it means you're gonna get paid what I get paid if you see here
it says volunteer so there's no papers this is the launch control center we're
going to go through all this thing we're gonna go through a simulated launch top
row lift top we got how many targets three three targets which one's lit up
to target to was the default target for this site for the 19 years it was on
active duty the kree's did not know the destinations of their targets they were
top secret then they're top secret today we still have a bunch of missiles in the
ground and no one part of United States could very well still be targeted
two and three think about it if he didn't know what the target was and it
was across the pond somewhere and we got a real-life launch order and you've got
a hand uncle a little over there you might not do your job so that's why they
kept the destinations to the targets away from the cruise this is how the
message comes down you ready ready okay so we get our incoming message in the
commander and deputy commander is gonna pick up their emergency action message
book just like this on the inside they're gonna start writing down
alphanumeric message at the end of the message the voice on the other end is
gonna say and I say again you and Joe are gonna swap books the message is
going to be repeated and you're gonna check each other's work if everything
matches 100% you got a ballot launch order all right you guys ready ready all
right left hands on the key three two one turn
all the way hold it hold it potent green light let go let go back in the day cost
10 million dollars to build aside like I said about 2.5 million dollars for the
missile the cost of the warhead was classified this is a real time to
missile it was number 10 off the assembly line from Martin Marietta to
Denver Colorado and misses the missile that anybody who worked in the tactician
system got their training on NASA liked him so much they bought 12 of them and
they used them for the Gemini program you've heard of Neil Armstrong
by this very first piece right on top of the talking to mr. Kim's you and I need
thank you thanks for coming guys I don't know about you but that was
pretty incredible I really enjoy the tour with Ken he was
a wealth of knowledge I don't know that tour gave me goose
bumps what about you yeah it's a really bone-chilling thought about you know why
these places were built what was meant and everything else I hope a lot of
people get to experience this and go on the tour because it gives you
perspective and an idea and glimpse of what I must have been like to live here
that Cold War era but also serve at a place like this the people that served
here you know I can't imagine their day-to-day activity and what they went
through mentally trying to prepare for what they had to do yeah I would love to
come back and do the six hour tour and just spend the day here and go through
every level and see it from top to bottom they did have pretty big living
quarters compared to the van yes the kitchen should have given them a wet
bath then they would have had something to complain about by the way yes I love
that it finally got cold enough for you to dig out your long sleeve sweater
I never thought I knew it gets chilly myself but we're in Tucson and it's
freezing it's supposed to get down to 35 tonight yes yep my kind of weather he
just wants to sleep outside all day why is that signing kilometres did we
accidentally drive into Mexico oh it
I thought we were
are you ready ready interstate 90 runs from cheese on snow
palace and the country's Molly continues my way that list
I embrace the metric system to make it more accessible to tourists coming from
Mexico
good spot yep and I'm ready for coffee you know a lot of people ask us if we
enjoy band life we're happy we downsize yeah and I would say times like these
where we're at a Pima Air Museum and we know we want to spend the whole day here
have our home with us me you're making coffee come back for lunch hang out go
back again until they're closed yep we get to spend the whole day here
in our home think back to when we were traveling in the Class A yeah we brought
the Jeep here but if we wanted to have lunch we had to go back to the Class A
we just parked out on BLM the freedom of being able to have everything but that
to me is one of the core reasons why I love an life
absolutely
like the tram tour started yeah yes she bombed or was in combat as a slurry
bomber fighting forest fires was owned by a private owner that hired himself
out with slurry tanks in the bomb bay so that they could drop flame retardant on
forest fires founders of this museum approached the airforce giad really be
nice if you you could loan us a b-17 and for display in our Museum and the Air
Force agreed with that but when they went to check their inventory they
couldn't find an inventory they said to keep their eyes open found this plane
sitting on the ground on the tarmac in Cody Wyoming and its fire bomber posture
if you will and ran down there owner/operator over by virtue of the
tail number suggested to the pilot owner how would you like to replace that ratty
old b-17 you're flying for a nice new clean c-54 transport and he said yeah
yesterday so that's how the Air Force got this airframe back it was a trade it
was a trade or a swap if you will being playing what is it b-36 a
peacemaker
let's go check out the b-52s I don't mean the band
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