At Home In The Wasteland Travel Blog

Located at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum annex near Dulles Airport), this Boeing B-29 Superfortress was the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb as a weapon of war. On August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb code-named “Little Boy” over the Japanese city of [...]

When booking a flight to Pyongyang, your options are rather limited. Unless you can catch one of the few Air China flights that fly to Pyongyang, you will be flying on Air Koryo, the North Korean state owned airline. This is not necessarily a bad thing, however, as long as you ignore the fact that [...]

I still have a ton of Costa Rica photos to upload, but here are a few photos from this past weekend when Liz, Nick, and I went to the Joint Service Open House at Andrews Air Force Base. You basically spend the day checking out all the cool military equipment that your tax money buys [...]

One of their pilots is drunk and the passengers demand that he be removed before the plane leaves Moscow for New York. Aeroflot’s response? At the same time, an Aeroflot representative sought to assure them that “it’s not such a big deal if the pilot is drunk.” “Really, all he has to do is press [...]

Drove down to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center today. The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum doesn’t have enough room at its location on the National Mall, so they built the Udvar-Hazy annex near Dulles Airport in Northern Virginia to display more of their collection. It opened in December 2003, but I hadn’t made it [...]