For years and years I have been flying into the Oakland International Airport, rushing to get a rental car and then zooming off to wherever. Days later rushing back to the airport to return the car and catch a bus to the terminals to fly out.

For all those years I have been going past two areas on the airport property that always intrigued me. Yesterday I had some time to burn waiting to meet folks coming in on a flight so I took a bit of time and visited the Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Park and the Oakland Aviation Museum.

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The Museum was great because it was not a bunch of prettied- up airplanes all restored to their former glory. For the most part this was a bunch of old planes in and around an ancient hanger, most all showing their age. You get a real feel that these planes and their hanger had been worked hard and then discarded when no longer of use.

September 18, 2009