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We were out 5 weeks. All is well at the house. I took a picture of this sign at the space center. It was located underneath a mockup of the Hubble Space Telescope.

Crooked River SP Georgia

This park is on the Georgia, Florida border. This is our traditional last camp, before we return to Beaufort. It's close enough (3 1/2 hours) that we can flush and drain the holding tanks here so they will be dry during the upcoming period that the MP is in storage. Also, we are having holding tank issues and our RV mechanic is going to have to be working on them. I took these pics during my arrival bike ride. The trail I was on followed the Crooked River. Home tomorrow.

Rodman Campground (near Palatka)

We stayed here a few campgrounds ago. I'm not sure why we decided to stay here again on the way home but we did make our reservations a year ago so the reason has been lost to the passage of time. We are headed home. We've only got 3 more nights out. I rode my bike through a swamp after we got here. I was somewhat prepared because I was wearing my river shoes but I was not completely prepared for a swim that I almost had to take. I won't be riding that trail again. I forgot to mention something we learned yesterday at the Space Center. The rockets and payloads are assembled in the VAB (vehicle assembly building). After that is done the whole thing is moved to the launch pad on an enormous vehicle called a crawler. The crawler gets 37 feet per gallon. I thought that was pretty gross. The pic below is our campsite.

Kennedy Space Center day 2

The tour we took today was focused on our early space program. We left the KSC and drove into Cape Canaveral. All of the historic launch pads that were used by our first astronauts are on The Cape. The first group of astronauts we had were called "The Mercury Seven". If you are from a certain generation you will surely recognize their names. Glenn, Shepard, Grissom, Cooper, Schirra, Carpenter, and Slayton. On the shoulders of giants. That little rocket Jenny is standing by
is the rocket Alan Shepherd rode into space to become our first astronaut. It was a toy. The computing power used in the early launches was less that the computing power in my watch. We feel like we have seen enough of the space coast. We move tomorrow.

Kennedy Space Center

We did a tour. Very interesting, very well done. The amount of money, time and effort that went into getting us to the moon was more immense than I could of ever imagined. 40,000 people worked on it for 12 years. The orange fuel tank in the pic below held 500,000 gallons and was completely emptied in 8 1/2 minutes. We have another tour tomorrow.