We took a bus about an hour east from the Indio CA rally facility to the Patton Museum. I was surprised it was right off the 10 freeway. Turns out it is on the original spot of Camp Young, one of many camps spread out over thousands of square miles of California, Arizona and Nevada desert. The first thing you saw as you walked in 
was a huge terrain map of all the camps. Kind of helped give you a perspective of just how large an area they used for training. Turns out the the furthest east encampment was about 20 miles east of where we would be camping next week. And we would be camping over 2 hours drive from here at 75 MPH freeway speeds. That must have been one hell of a drive back then on dirt roads.
Anyway, the museum was much nicer than I expected. The really put in a lot of work to make it a nice place. Lots of tanks to look at and some with cutaways, others with turrets removed and stairs allowing easy from the top. They even had a Sherman tank and it had a lot of 50 cal holes in it. No wonder why they were called Ronson’s by the Gerrys.
