Road Trip Chronicles Vol. 5: US Army Transportation Museum and Virginia Aviation Museum- Rappahannock River Campground

So when I fell asleep at the Fredericksburg, VA rest area, it was about 4:00 A.M. When I woke up, I looked at my cellphone, and said: SHIT! (when I woke up, it was kind of darkish out, I was a bit disoriented because I was sick, and my cellphone said it was 6:00. I thought it was 6:00 P.M., and I called my mom. Me: "Hi mom, I think I overslept. Why does it sound like you just woke up?" Mom: "I did just wake up. It's 6:00 A.M. (on a Sunday)." Me: "Ohhhhh...Right." So I got out of my car, went to the bathroom, and this was the car parked next to me:

(Indeed it does...)

So I got in my car and drove south to Ft. Eustis, VA., and almost didn't get to see the U.S. Army Transportation Museum. When I got to the gate, I had to go through a security check. You're supposed to have: A. Current Insurance, and B. Registration. Guess what I had: Insurance that expired in December of 2005, and registration from 2002. So I had to pull over to the side while they checked things out. They finally let me go, and drove onto the base to the museum.

One of the coolest things they had at the museum was a Vietnam war gun truck. Gun trucks
were field modified 2 1/2 ton trucks with whatever guns and armor could be scrounged up, and were then used to protect convoys. The truck at the museum was called "Eve Of Destruction" (after the song), and was the only gun truck brought back from Vietnam. (my picture of the truck itself didn't turn out, so here's a pictur of a picture of the truck)
DUKW
Doak VZ-4
Curtiss Wright GEM Air Car
Piasecki HUP Retriever (my uncle says that these helicopters were death-traps)
Sikorsky YCH-54 Skycrane
Bell SK-5 Hovercraft (used in Vietnam)
DeHavilland YC-7A Caribou, used by the Golden Knights, the US Army parachute team
Sikorsky CH-37B Mojave (I don't know why, but these are my favorite helicopters)
I think this was called a BRAC. It's an absoloutely ginormous amphibious vehicle. The tire was a good foot or two taller than me
This is the wheelhouse for the BRAC

After the Transportation Museum, I headed for Williamsburg, to visit the new Yankee Candle flagship store. The reason I wanted to visit there was because my uncle is the store designer for Yankee Candle. Unfortunately, I cant find the picture I took of the store right now. After Williamsburg, I drove up to Richmond, to visit the Virginia Aviation Museum, another museum I didn't know I would be driving right past.

SR-71A, the third of five Blackbirds I saw on my trip.
GE Whittle Engine
Taylor E-2 Cub, precursor to the Piper Cub
Pitcarin Mailwing
Vultee V-1A, definately the coolest plane at the museum
Vultee V-1 engine

After the VAM, I drove to the Rappahannock River Campground, in the middle of nowhere Virginia. I had to drive about 30 miles off the interstate to get to this place, and wasn't worth it. Including me, there were only two people camping there, and the campground was creepier than hell.