Category United States
It’s Rocket Science
14 March 2023, Space Coast USA, Titusville – Our final day in Orlando/Cape Canaveral – and what a day it turned out to be! Besides seeing our friends and doing all things space, we wanted to go on an airboat ride through the Florida swamps, just for the fun of it. There are operators all […]
KSC Take 2
13 March 2023, Space Coast USA, Kennedy Space Center – We were on the road in time to see an apocalyptic sunrise, thanks to the clouds that rolled in overnight. We were first in line at the entry gate at Kennedy Space Center, for our second visit. Next to us was a family from northern […]
26 Years of Catching Up
12 March 2023, Orlando USA – Besides checking out rockets, our main reason for spending time in Florida was to catch up with our friends, Carla and Bob. Back in 1997, when we rode our bicycles across the USA, we’d pulled into a roadside stop somewhere in Montana. It was blazingly hot, my ankle was […]
Computer Says No
11 March 2023, Space Coast USA, Port Canaveral – After a day spent catching up on various things, it was time to get back on the space tourist trail. First up, we called in at the Sands Space History Center, in Port Canaveral. We discovered this was tucked in behind SpaceX’s launch and landing control […]
Pointy End Up, Flamey End Down
9 March 2023, Space Coast USA, Kennedy Space Center – A big day! Not only were we booked to go to Kennedy Space Center, and join a special tour of the Atlantis Space Shuttle, but a Spacex launch was scheduled for this afternoon. Even better, it was a “return to launch site” for the booster, […]
Space Geeking
8 March 2023, Space Coast USA, Cocoa Beach and Port Canaveral – Our tour of the Space Coast began in a familiar place. Although Melbourne Florida has an international airport, it is considerably smaller than its Australian counterpart; we were through it in about 15 minutes. We liked the Town Hall, somewhat less grand than […]
Travel Daze
7 March 2023, Buenos Aires, Argentina to Orlando, US, via Miami – In the last 7 days we’ve stayed in 7 different places, taken 4 flights (including a 9 hour overnight), lived out of minimarts, and washed our clothes in bathroom basins. We’ve lost track of the time of day, eating and sleeping to fit […]
Buenos Aires
Too tired to think up a catchy title. We flew overnight to BA and arrived this morning, feeling like zombies. The apartment is small but comfy; it is HOT here. More on BA later; first an update on Dallas. Aftr going to bed on our second night, I developed a pain in my right side […]
Dallying in Dallas
5 February 2023, Dallas, USA – Our first rule of long haul travelling is always to block out the first full day after arrival for R&R, in case we are too jetlagged to get out bed. Last time we flew to Europe (which feels like aeons ago now but was only in 2019), my head […]
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