Letterboxing~Tucson AMARC

We drove out to Tucson on Monday to do some boxing. Our first box at Purple Heart Park in SE Tucson was a bust. We had to rely fully on our compass skills since we were walking all over a desert covered in mesquite, palo verde and prickly pear,so it's possible we got our bearings messed up, but we think that we actually found the site and the box had been removed. Bummer!

So afterwards we drove a little farther north to the AMARC site. The Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center is the location of what many call "The Boneyard", which is the equivilant of a used-car lot, aviation style. There are over 4,200 hundred aircraft, many that are war fighters. More than 40 aerospace vehicles and 350,000 production tooling items also sit on the 2,600 hundred acres in the SE area of Tucson.

The handsome hand-carved stamp we discovered in the box was of a F-111 Aardvark, placed by a letterbox, nicknamed 'VarkDog' who wrote "Alot of my own sweat and blood are in these aircraft'.
We were all a little bit awed to see so many aircraft stretching out into the distance as far as the eye could see.

Here's some pics that Jax took from the roof of my "Gas Javelina" (we renamed my GMC Safari from gas hog to this new name!)


A couple rows of the F-111 Aardvark War Fighters

Some of the larger aircraft lined up towards to the Rincon Mountains towards the east.