A Wright Road Trip!
While traveling, Sherr
i and I create mini road trips to keep our long days on the highways more exciting. This time, along with Tim Moore, we created a Wright Brothers road trip in Dayton, Ohio and found sites that many of the pros in Dayton didn’t know about or suggest. This was fun, mostly free, and a great time with a wonderful end!
Our travels started at the Carillon Park on Dayton’s south side. This a beautiful park and museum with many historical sites and homes brought together almost 80 years ago by the Deeds family. The gem to the park is the Wright Flyer building. Eventually you enter temperature controlled chamber where the only aircraft in the U.S. dubbed a National Landmark is housed in a pit for easy viewing. It’s the actual plane (the Wright Flier III) that the Wright Brothers built that changed the world. It’s unbelievable and very solemn to see it.
Then we moved onto Hawthorne Hill, the home of Orville Wright, and then onto the Wright Cycle shop and the museum next door which was their print shop. Following that we stopped by the Engineering Academy where we saw a beautiful full size statue of the Wrights flying, then onto the “Fly Over” sculpture. Then to Deeds Point where we hung out with the “Brothers” on the shores of the Great Miami. We then headed to the Wright Brothers Laboratory, The old original Wright Plane Factory, and then to Woodlawn Cemetery where you see the family plot of the whole Wright family. By the way; the Wright Brothers father was Bishop Milton Wright a preacher and the boys kept the faith because of their upbringing…pretty awesome.
The we headed up to the Wright Brothers Memorial and Museum way above and overlooking Wright Patterson Air Force Base (by the way…noticed Indian mounds located on the hill as well). And then the special treat was a journey down to Huffman Prairie where the Wrights flew and perfected the airplane on the Wright Flier III. It was a wonderful place to end and awe-inspiring view and we were all alone. It’s the world’s first airport. Sherri even flew a Wright inspired twist flier at the site.
It was a great adventure for us all!
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