When I was a Paratrooper in the Army my little brother was in the Air Force as a Titan II missile guidance expert working in one of those silos in Tuscon Arizona. I visited him one summer heading back to Ft. Bragg North Carolina, because I held a top secret clearance he was allowed to give me the guided tour of the silo with the live missile in it, was very cool!
Thank you for mentioning the importance of rider visibility. Safety first - always. Recently bought a Breakfree and appreciate the added safety. Last year's "splurge" was a Helite vest. One ambulance ride not taken pays for everything I wear.
Hi Caroline, Loved this episode, it’s never that often that people all over the world can see inside places like this. Thanks so much for bringing it & telling the stories. Cheers ✌️🏍️💜
What a trip exploring the missile silo and spending the night. Silos still exist and are active, it's no secret, and are in Montana and Wyoming (ND too?). Somewhere in Arizona there's a mock up of a Titan II, during the tour the guide runs you through a launch sequence. For all those that don't know, the training is very intense, some don't finish training and are washed out because they refuse to "commit" during a simulation.
Awesome video. This is where you really shine! Bringing along the viewer and making it seem as if we were there with you. great content and looking forward to the next installment.
Good gracious 😮! You have such a delightful tone in your voice when you sing out in the silo👍😍. Very sweet and 🌹 lovely! A hidden talent resides within😊
Hi, I just found your videos yesterday and I really enjoy them , I think you have really given a lot encouragement to other women and new bike riders. I am an old Harley rider in fact Harleys have been to only bikes I have ever owned. I got my first Harley at age 12, It was a new 1958 Harley Hummer 125CC's. By that you can tell how old I am. I've been riding ever since. The reason I'm commenting is I've watched you pick up your bikes after you've drop them. I'm not a big man and I've always had trouble picking up a heavy bike like a Road king, I have a Flstn now so it is easier. There is a guy on you tube that makes picking up a heavy bike a lot easier. A whole different technic. He's channel is Be the Boss of your Motorcycle. He is a Police officer. I have found this is so much easier then the back lift. Maybe you have already seen this. Thanks again for your video and looking forward for new ones.
I was a Security Specialist at Malmstrom AFB, MT, Oct 1983 thru May 1985: Missile field, 10th, 12th, 490th, and 564th, mobile fire teams. Too damn cold out there.
Hi Doodles on a Motorcycle, Fun! What an amazing & fun experience, thank you for taking me on that, interesting on the temperature that you shared , 40 feet under, with no climate control it was chilly 😮, safe travels, ride safe, excited for the next episode, Aloha, Kenneth 🤙🏽
I see you trying to hide that SHERF department shirt lol. Us highway pals gotta stick together 😂 My wife and I love your channel. She really enjoys all the videos on short rider problems because she suffers from the same thing. Don't get me wrong, she can ride a motorcycle but she's a use it or lose it kind of person. Keep up the great work doodle. We're looking forward to your next videos
Looks like you got to stop at the petting zoo (outside old missiles museum) at Ft. Bliss. That brings back memories. Lots of old ghost towns where Billy The Kid roamed around near there on your way up through the Gila Wilderness. We used to go 4x4 exploring all through there. Lots of Pictographs and Petroglyphs on the canyon walls too. Did you see or find any?
If you want some great food in Roswell, head to Geli's Cafe or Lemon Grass, or Antiquas for dinner! Just be careful in that place, it's not what it seems!
Another great adventure!!!!! You are visiting areas I wished I had the chance to visit but age is creeping up on me. Now back when I was much younger I did go into several gold mines that were close to my home in Sugar Hill. Keep up the great adventures and be safe & blessed!!!!
This is awesome stuff!! I watched this with my 7-year-old daughter; she loved it! She stated- girls can ride motorcycles? Now both of my daughters like watching your channel, and wanna ride a motorcycle and take adventures. ❤ Great content, and thank you for providing a positive example of what "a girl" can do too!!
Back about 40 or so years ago, my boss, lusted after an old, maybe 1958, Corvette. He had wanted this specific model since he had been in the Army, and he finally found one that he could afford from a, well, more of a fixer-upper than a restorer guy, in Indiana. So he went to look at it, end eventually buy it, at this guy's facility, which happened to be in an old missile silo. He said that, when you got there, all there was above ground was a grass-covered mound with a garage door set in it, and a telephone next to the door. You picked up the phone, and the owner answered. He then remotely opened the garage door, and you drove inside, and the garage floor started to lower down on an elevator (which he was told had been used to bring the missiles down into the silo). When you got to the bottom, you drove your car off of the elevator into a garage space. My boss said that he felt like he was visiting James Bond. The guy had actually shortened the elevator platform by half, and the remaining half of the elevator machinery pit was converted into a swimming pool! How cool is that! The rest of the silo was converted into a nice, sans windows, home. I recall that my boss said that the silo itself was roofed over with a big skylight, but I believe that the silo hatch could be closed over the glass during tornadoes or other bad weather. By the way, I saw my old boss at a Christmas get togther last December, and he still has the Corvette.
Awesome. I've always wanted to go to one of those silos. I'm not a prepper or anything, but it just seems so cool. I'll have to look it up. Keep up the great vids
Hey Doodle! Love the vids!! Keep it up. Question. I watched one of your videos where u rented a motorcycle from a private person. I can’t find it now. But was wondering what that service was. I recall you spoke highly of it. I have a couple of bikes and want to lease ironically my Himalayan. And I think it’s what you rented then too. If memory serves. Thanks in advance.
In high school we got to tour an operational underground missile bunker (yes I'm old haha) staffed by the Air Force I believe. Cool but not as cool as your tour Doodle!
Didn't even think of that until Gary gave me a schpeel how if I'm ever uncomfortable at any time I can go up to the surface... I'm like... "why would I be uncomfortable?" 😅
I’ve had a brake free light on my helmet for a couple years. It is absolutely worth it. I’ve had family ride behind me and comment how well it works. So easy. Stick it on the helmet and off you go. Makes the helmet a little heavier but nothing that will bother you for long.
doodLé is doodle’s millionaire very bougie and sophisticated European alter ego. DoodLé would never stay here as it’s 4 star + for her only. Therefore, this video has is in the DCU (doodle cinematic universe) not the MCU (millionaire Cinematic universe) but it is the MCU ( missile cinematic universe) *this comment is 100% confirmed doodle canon
Did your guide sound a bit like Zoidberg? Or is that just me? Not sayin' tbat's a bad thing. He sounded like a man of good humor, and a wealth of interesting info on the site.
Hi Caroline, Interesting video as always. Wondering if you have ridden a maxi scooter , if not it might be an interesting video for some of your subscibers . .I don't own one yet but it might be a good addition to my triumph and ducati . Cheers.
There are so many current and historical military site within in the USA. This is likely even more true for other parts of the world, think old forts and some old castles. Both the French and British had forts in what is now Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Both fort were located about where Point State park is currently located. Most of us just don't think about this. In the late 1990's, about the time when the CIA bombed the Chinese embassy in Serbia, I was working on the construction site of an elementary school in Seattle Washington. The embassy bombing was apparently an error caused by the use of an out of date map that listed the location as a military site. The elementary school was built on a site that had two or three missile silos that were demolition and filled in for the construction of the school. The missile silo were decommissioned decades earlier. (Most likely in the 1960's or early 1970's.) I was told that during WWII it was an anti aircraft site to protect Boeing fields from potential enemy bombing.
@@DoodleOnAMotorcycle If I had stayed in school I wanted to be a Missileman. As a side note I played with rockets as a kid, did science experiments with them in high school, my major in college was aerospace engineering (but I partied way too much and flunked out). I introduced my son into model rocketry, and he got his son into it. I don't play with rockets anymore just motorcycles.
Very cool! Spent 4 years at Vandenberg AFB in the last 70’s at a Titan II missile silo. Kinda brought back memories, lol. Thanks Dood!
Wow!!
When I was a Paratrooper in the Army my little brother was in the Air Force as a Titan II missile guidance expert working in one of those silos in Tuscon Arizona. I visited him one summer heading back to Ft. Bragg North Carolina, because I held a top secret clearance he was allowed to give me the guided tour of the silo with the live missile in it, was very cool!
Great video thank you very well done as always thanks for taking us along cheers to ya.
Thank you for mentioning the importance of rider visibility. Safety first - always. Recently bought a Breakfree and appreciate the added safety. Last year's "splurge" was a Helite vest. One ambulance ride not taken pays for everything I wear.
Hi Caroline, Loved this episode, it’s never that often that people all over the world can see inside places like this. Thanks so much for bringing it & telling the stories. Cheers ✌️🏍️💜
What a trip exploring the missile silo and spending the night. Silos still exist and are active, it's no secret, and are in Montana and Wyoming (ND too?). Somewhere in Arizona there's a mock up of a Titan II, during the tour the guide runs you through a launch sequence. For all those that don't know, the training is very intense, some don't finish training and are washed out because they refuse to "commit" during a simulation.
I have been there. It's very interesting. The banks of computers for control now are the size of a toaster.
You have such a positive personality and attitude. Thank you for sharing!
Bravo Doodle a joy to watch thank you blessings
Thank you for editing in comparison shots from the redone silo, so we could see exactly where we were.
Awesome video. This is where you really shine! Bringing along the viewer and making it seem as if we were there with you. great content and looking forward to the next installment.
Great adventure. Your videos are getting better.
Doodle, been there, done that. Gary is great guy. He has more memories packed full of very important history that cannot he lost.
Good gracious 😮! You have such a delightful tone in your voice when you sing out in the silo👍😍. Very sweet and 🌹 lovely! A hidden talent resides within😊
You are braver than I, young lady.
Another great video. I've enjoyed.
Thank you.
Looks like fun! That great laugh and joy of yours adds to the adventure. Keep riding!
Hi, I just found your videos yesterday and I really enjoy them , I think you have really given a lot encouragement to other women and new bike riders. I am an old Harley rider in fact Harleys have been to only bikes I have ever owned. I got my first Harley at age 12, It was a new 1958 Harley Hummer 125CC's. By that you can tell how old I am. I've been riding ever since. The reason I'm commenting is I've watched you pick up your bikes after you've drop them. I'm not a big man and I've always had trouble picking up a heavy bike like a Road king, I have a Flstn now so it is easier. There is a guy on you tube that makes picking up a heavy bike a lot easier. A whole different technic. He's channel is Be the Boss of your Motorcycle. He is a Police officer. I have found this is so much easier then the back lift. Maybe you have already seen this. Thanks again for your video and looking forward for new ones.
Speechless, you are so lucky to experience all this soak it in, thanks for the ride, so cool.
👍🏼👍🏼
Wow that’s just amazing. What a great idea to turn a missile silo into a living space. Another Great vid Doodle
I was a Security Specialist at Malmstrom AFB, MT, Oct 1983 thru May 1985: Missile field, 10th, 12th, 490th, and 564th, mobile fire teams. Too damn cold out there.
Hi Doodles on a Motorcycle, Fun! What an amazing & fun experience, thank you for taking me on that, interesting on the temperature that you shared , 40 feet under, with no climate control it was chilly 😮, safe travels, ride safe, excited for the next episode, Aloha, Kenneth 🤙🏽
I see you trying to hide that SHERF department shirt lol. Us highway pals gotta stick together 😂
My wife and I love your channel. She really enjoys all the videos on short rider problems because she suffers from the same thing. Don't get me wrong, she can ride a motorcycle but she's a use it or lose it kind of person. Keep up the great work doodle. We're looking forward to your next videos
Love these videos where you get off the bike and explore ! Great job Doodle....
That was awesome, thanks for sharing.
So cool! I think I'll buy that helmet light you're rocking. It's a super good idea.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing.
Nice change of pace.
I was really looking forward to this video. Thx Doodle.
Looked like fun! Thanks for sharing😁👍
Doodles, whatever next? Cool! At least no tornadoes or bad lightening storms will bother them. Safe cruising girl till next time 👍😊.
That was fun and interesting.
I love all these adventures for you!!!!
My dad worked on building sites in Wyoming back in the '60s. I was to young to go to any of them. Pretty neat to see. Thanks!
Cool stop and great video!
Cool video bringing in other aspects of exploratory bikelife. Big thumbs up!!! 😀
So Amazingly Cool! Thanks Doodle from Australia!!! 💛🚀
If I had a million dollars , I would hire doodle to take me on a motorcycle trip across the country! Your adventures are so epic! Thank you doodle!
WOW! Doodle, what an experience .
Looks like you got to stop at the petting zoo (outside old missiles museum) at Ft. Bliss. That brings back memories. Lots of old ghost towns where Billy The Kid roamed around near there on your way up through the Gila Wilderness. We used to go 4x4 exploring all through there. Lots of Pictographs and Petroglyphs on the canyon walls too. Did you see or find any?
If you want some great food in Roswell, head to Geli's Cafe or Lemon Grass, or Antiquas for dinner! Just be careful in that place, it's not what it seems!
Another great adventure!!!!! You are visiting areas I wished I had the chance to visit but age is creeping up on me. Now back when I was much younger I did go into several gold mines that were close to my home in Sugar Hill. Keep up the great adventures and be safe & blessed!!!!
Quit the adventure Doodle, great video, ride safe !
This is awesome stuff!! I watched this with my 7-year-old daughter; she loved it! She stated- girls can ride motorcycles? Now both of my daughters like watching your channel, and wanna ride a motorcycle and take adventures. ❤ Great content, and thank you for providing a positive example of what "a girl" can do too!!
Ah that's awesome
Missile silo air BNB. You keep it fresh that for sure
Since this is "our" room for the night, I must ask, "Do you snore?" Because I'm afraid that it would echo throughout the bunker. LOL!
So cool! What an experience!
Good job not falling Doodle. I would’ve fell. 😂
Thank you for the added Celsius!
Thanks for the good video
Wow you are really rocking these travel videos they are awesome excellent work
Love you Doodle!!!!! Keep it up!!!
So interesting! What a wild place !
Great video adventure!
This is very cool. I can only imagine if you fix up the entire silo as a underground luxury home.
You should ride to the abandoned cold war radar base in Vermont, it's epic!
This was dope af. I have the urge to drop a marble and listen to it hit the ground 😅
Awesome video, envious of you, wish I had places like that to visit in Australia.
If you get hurt Who comes to save you😢. Nice video. Good riding.
Looking forward to you reviewing the Suzuki GSX-8S and the Honda CB750 Hornet. I hope they're on your radar
That's actually so fun and creative to create an BnB in a old missile silo. LOL. Also be owning a piece of military history.
Back about 40 or so years ago, my boss, lusted after an old, maybe 1958, Corvette. He had wanted this specific model since he had been in the Army, and he finally found one that he could afford from a, well, more of a fixer-upper than a restorer guy, in Indiana. So he went to look at it, end eventually buy it, at this guy's facility, which happened to be in an old missile silo. He said that, when you got there, all there was above ground was a grass-covered mound with a garage door set in it, and a telephone next to the door. You picked up the phone, and the owner answered. He then remotely opened the garage door, and you drove inside, and the garage floor started to lower down on an elevator (which he was told had been used to bring the missiles down into the silo). When you got to the bottom, you drove your car off of the elevator into a garage space. My boss said that he felt like he was visiting James Bond.
The guy had actually shortened the elevator platform by half, and the remaining half of the elevator machinery pit was converted into a swimming pool! How cool is that!
The rest of the silo was converted into a nice, sans windows, home. I recall that my boss said that the silo itself was roofed over with a big skylight, but I believe that the silo hatch could be closed over the glass during tornadoes or other bad weather.
By the way, I saw my old boss at a Christmas get togther last December, and he still has the Corvette.
Very interesting video for a European like me! High five from Germany!🤚
This video is so freakin cool! I truly enjoyed watching it.
Seems like staying there would be a... blast!
Baahahaha I see what you did there
great Vid Doodle.... cheers
ty for this!
Awesome. I've always wanted to go to one of those silos. I'm not a prepper or anything, but it just seems so cool. I'll have to look it up. Keep up the great vids
Yasss
Such an interesting vlog! Can't wait for the next one!
Boss this is a new version - I know I saw this before you got back home from that trip - must have been on IG - good job on the delivery - great vid !
Hey Doodle! Love the vids!! Keep it up. Question. I watched one of your videos where u rented a motorcycle from a private person. I can’t find it now. But was wondering what that service was. I recall you spoke highly of it. I have a couple of bikes and want to lease ironically my Himalayan. And I think it’s what you rented then too. If memory serves. Thanks in advance.
Interesting piece of history….. thanks for the video…
In 1966 I got to go into a full oppressional silo hear Great falls MT. That was quit different from this one. Thank you for sharing
Maria with Roaming Reckless was there a little while back, really cool place
Like your video, bring back my Air Force days 77-81. Ours were little different. Living area was miles away from the
In high school we got to tour an operational underground missile bunker (yes I'm old haha) staffed by the Air Force I believe. Cool but not as cool as your tour Doodle!
Glad to see you enjoying my home state of New Mexico! There a lot of cool stuff out there.
Another great video! I don't know if I could handle staying in a bunker - it might leave me feeling claustrophobic!
Didn't even think of that until Gary gave me a schpeel how if I'm ever uncomfortable at any time I can go up to the surface... I'm like... "why would I be uncomfortable?" 😅
@@DoodleOnAMotorcycle haha... I might be okay down there, but I certainly wouldn't count on it!
I’ve had a brake free light on my helmet for a couple years. It is absolutely worth it. I’ve had family ride behind me and comment how well it works. So easy. Stick it on the helmet and off you go. Makes the helmet a little heavier but nothing that will bother you for long.
Definitely different Carolyn. Can’t say I’ve seen that before! Larry in Fort Worth
doodLé is doodle’s millionaire very bougie and sophisticated European alter ego. DoodLé would never stay here as it’s 4 star + for her only.
Therefore, this video has is in the DCU (doodle cinematic universe) not the MCU (millionaire Cinematic universe) but it is the MCU ( missile cinematic universe)
*this comment is 100% confirmed doodle canon
Ok, you sold me on the Brake Free Mrs. Doodle! I say I’m safe, so now act it :-)
Now my helmet will weigh 1800 grams though! big increase. haha
Great video🤙
loved the video, keep them up.
those are cool for the history. good vid
Very cool!❤
There's a silo in Texas that's full of water and you can pay to scuba dive. It's supposed to be crystal clear all the way down.
Did your guide sound a bit like Zoidberg? Or is that just me? Not sayin' tbat's a bad thing. He sounded like a man of good humor, and a wealth of interesting info on the site.
Thanks!
pretty wild....well done
I wonder if your echo scared the bats 😂
😂 "Damn it, Doodle! You're disrupting our echolocation!"
You do cool adventures!
Hi Caroline,
Interesting video as always. Wondering if you have ridden a maxi scooter , if not it might be an interesting video for some of your subscibers .
.I don't own one yet but it might be a good addition to my triumph and ducati . Cheers.
There are so many current and historical military site within in the USA. This is likely even more true for other parts of the world, think old forts and some old castles. Both the French and British had forts in what is now Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Both fort were located about where Point State park is currently located. Most of us just don't think about this.
In the late 1990's, about the time when the CIA bombed the Chinese embassy in Serbia, I was working on the construction site of an elementary school in Seattle Washington. The embassy bombing was apparently an error caused by the use of an out of date map that listed the location as a military site. The elementary school was built on a site that had two or three missile silos that were demolition and filled in for the construction of the school. The missile silo were decommissioned decades earlier. (Most likely in the 1960's or early 1970's.) I was told that during WWII it was an anti aircraft site to protect Boeing fields from potential enemy bombing.
Awesome!
That was freakin cool!
You make some great content, girl! Awesome video! xo
I'd would love to own and live in one.. that would be a blast from the past... thanks girl, remember keep the rubber side down..PEACE
No expense was spared there. The crappiest Chinesium fridge they could find.
Awesome
Awesome video really cool place
I got to go down into a live silo in Arizona when I was at the University of Arizona in the late 70s as an Air Force ROTC cadet.
Whoa!!!
@@DoodleOnAMotorcycle If I had stayed in school I wanted to be a Missileman. As a side note I played with rockets as a kid, did science experiments with them in high school, my major in college was aerospace engineering (but I partied way too much and flunked out). I introduced my son into model rocketry, and he got his son into it. I don't play with rockets anymore just motorcycles.