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Roger Curry
Senior Member Username: Rcurryastro
Post Number: 826 Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 76.123.106.110
| Posted on Saturday, May 22, 2010 - 06:52 pm: | |
If I remember correctly, it is an easy drive to Chattanooga, TN, and Huntsville, AL. Both are good tourist destination (Ruby Falls, Lookout Mtn., Rock City in Chattanooga and the NASA museum and Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville). Roger in Jacksonville, FL |
   
William C. Allanach
Advanced Member Username: Poppop
Post Number: 205 Registered: 01-2006 Posted From: 72.234.21.140
| Posted on Saturday, May 22, 2010 - 03:54 pm: | |
Great spot to RON. But, concur, out of the way. Stayed there twice and had a pleasant, scenic (slow) drive via rural roads to Millington |
   
James H. Coppens
Intermediate Member Username: Coppens1
Post Number: 102 Registered: 05-2006 Posted From: 134.93.40.24
| Posted on Saturday, May 22, 2010 - 05:29 am: | |
I was tDY there once, and have stayed overnight a couple of times space a while driving somewhere. Its a beautiful base, even has boats to rent for use on a reservoir. And there are tons of deer. But its a long way off the interstate. And I prefer Dickel to Jack. JC |
   
Roger Curry
Senior Member Username: Rcurryastro
Post Number: 823 Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 76.123.106.110
| Posted on Saturday, May 22, 2010 - 02:30 am: | |
Will just add that I have stayed at Arnold E&T Center on a couple of occasions and found the rooms very nice and the base itself very nice. There were an abundance of deer that are used to the cars. Roger in Jacksonville, FL |
   
John David Brooks
Senior Member Username: Johnb6597
Post Number: 416 Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 121.55.235.75
| Posted on Friday, May 21, 2010 - 10:27 pm: | |
Always been a Dr. Jack guy myself, but I'm curious...how does Dickel compare in taste to Jack? |
   
DAVIS, L. E.
Senior Member Username: Ldavis
Post Number: 495 Registered: 06-2003 Posted From: 173.24.183.1
| Posted on Friday, May 21, 2010 - 10:20 pm: | |
We are up there all the time to shop and eat and go by Arnold AFS px etc. There is a small sign on the highway we use saying "Beechcraft Heritage Museum". We have been passing this sign for years but today we had little more time and went by. It is a very nice museum in a park across the runway from the airport terminal. We saw how big it was and decided we would not go through it today but will go back. We met the manager whose husband is retired Army and they have never been Space a. My first Space A flight was on an SN Beechcraft out of Barbers Point Hawaii to Hilo and back in 1961. Below is the link. http://www.beechcraftheritagemuseum.org/photo_gallery/model_18.shtml One more thing. Everyone knows that Jack Daniel is at Lynchburg down the road from Tullahouma but not many know that George Dickel is made near Tullahouma. They do have tours. They say George Dickel tastes the way it does because "George Dickel is the only Tennessee whisky to chill the whiskey before it goes into the charcoal mellowing vats." Link: www.georgedickel.com All of this is very near Arnold AFS. |