Holiday Inn Titusville

... We spent 2 days touring the center, you get to see the launch pads (from a distance), pieces of the international space station being built and prepared for their journey into space and lots of history and information on sapce flight. They also have lots of old rockets and a Shuttle that you can climb on and check out. We walked on the run way that Neil Armstong walked on and met a real Astronaut, cool! His name was Bob Springer. The centre is ...

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Whew, we arrived at 10pm at Travis's House Josh's older brother. We will be staying here for 2 months instead of the originally planned 1 months. We need time to fix up the RV and make more necessary repairs before we head on westward. I need to do a transmission flush, and replace whatever seals thats leaky, and replace the axle ...

... You couldn’t even get it into one frame for a picture!! It took 4 hours to get on… but we’re on now so… ya. But the pool looks so fun! There is also a surf rider thing that looks really fun. OOOhh and there’s an arcade! Well anyway, When we got on the ship, we got these cards that are basically our credit cards J And we went to the restaurant… and the Onion tart was GOOOOD! But it was mums ...

The US are very proud of their space exploration. The Kennedy Space Centre is a fantastic example of this. We were given an extensive tour of the facilty and shown the journey of every shuttle before it takes off to space. The massive equipment that is needed to move the shuttles and rockets around the facility. We even got to listen to Jack Lousma, an astronaut who was in Skylab and the first shuttle missions.

Cassidy's recount
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Visita a Cabo Cañaveral, o más fácil a la NASA. Hemos pasado un dia bastante caluroso visitando el complejo, con subida al Shuttle, zona de lanzamiento, zona de ensamblaje y demás partes del area. Molt bonico.
Por la tarde hemos puesto rumbo a Miami, pasando por West Palm Beach, donde la caña de apartamentos a primera linea de playa nos ha dejado un poco atónitos.
Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States cyo

... he forgot the
state of Georgia lies between South Carolina and Florida, lol. We also
saw some wild boar on the side of the road. 8)

1:30PM EST - we've reached the Florida border, thus completing our quest to visit all 48 contiguous US states.

We continued driving. Drove through St. Augustine -- a pretty, quaint
city, before continuing towards Cape Canaveral. Had we arrived a few
Titusville, Florida, United States klimczak

... St. Augustine. We were invited aboard - another couple from another boat was already on board. Pleasant conversation with everyone comparing notes. The Canadians come down the Erie Canal or Lake Champlain, the Hudson and then the Jersey Coast. We usually hear that Delaware Bay is the most memorably unpleasant part of their trip and have even met people who have skipped the Chesapeake and made an outside passage to avoid Delaware Bay. We dinghied back ...

... to the Space Centre for a brief look round and validating our tickets for a return tomorrow. Shuttle Launch time is set for 1609 Eastern Time - we'll be there !!!! Friday 7th We heard late last night that NASA have postponed the launch for 48 hous ie Saturday afternoon. NOOOOO!!!! The problem is in a set of sensors that detect the level of the liquid hydrogen tank and switch off the engines just before the tank runs dry. Unfortunately they are ...

An early start was needed if we were to get on the road to our next stop Sebring - and get some good birding in on the way. Last night was a bit cold so ...

... s possible to, as far as Flamingo one of the most southerly points of the US land mass. We were on time to catch a park ranger talk on the very interesting Red Mangrove tree which essentially props up the whole eco-structure of the Everglades. A walk over the top of the water revealed many alligators basking in the afternoon sunshine. We headed back to the airport and dropped our car back with Avis before we caught a shuttle to an airport motel in preparation for tomorrow.