Wednesday, May 9th - The Spruce Goose

After breakfast, we drove down to McMinnville, OR to visit the Evergreen Aviation Museum. This is home for the famous Spruce Goose flying boat. During World War II, Howard Hughes designed and built this plane out of wood, mostly birch wood, because he was prohibited from using steel and aluminum due to the war effort. The plane flew once, and only once, for about a mile in 1947. We enjoyed the museum for about three hours and then purchased two bottles of wine from the Spruce Goose Vineyard.

We drove down to Amity, OR to the Amity Vineyards. There we visited with other folks tasting wine and purchased six more bottles.