Tacoma LeMay America's Car Museum

It was the only museum open today, and well worth the two mile round trip walk over to it. The LeMay America’s Car Museum is huge! And fascinating! I took over 270 photos, so it will be hard to decide which ones to upload. (And it’s going to take a while to go through them on my laptop now and thin them out and categorize them.) There is also a lot of history shared about the auto industry and even route 66. With all my travels, and mostly because I spent a lot of time on Route 66 in Arizona during my college years, it was nostalgic to see some of the information about Route 66 history in Arizona and New Mexico. The best part of the museum is when I drove a Mazda simulator on a race track. My first two laps were not pretty. But in my defense I was still getting use to the simulator and trying to move my foot over far enough for the brake and still managing to hit the accelerator. But by the third and last lap I had it pretty much down and didn’t crash or wipe out any barriers. LOL! There were three other gentlemen at the simulator room also, but one of them was just watching, and he was willing to use my iPhone to take some photos and video of me. (There were only three simulators, so we each had our own.) I think I spent about 3 hours in the Museum, looking at the 4 floor levels of cars!Read more