Day 5 – 6/22/09 --- 343 Miles (Chamberlain, SD to Gillette, WY)
64 at 6:30 AM (CDT) --- 80 at 4 PM (MDT) - High winds for last 125 miles
We rode to Gillette, WY and stopped at Ellsworth Air Force Base to visit the South Dakota Air and Space Museum and take the tour of the Nike Minuteman Silo.
Here is a link to their website.
http://www.ellsworth.af.mil/museum.asp
B-1 Bomber and Our Valk

B-52

B-29

Minuteman Missle

Transporter

Silo

Entry Ladder

Looking Down

Looking Up

Me at the Control Panel (Scary thought, huh?)