Blogs from Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States, North America - page 6

Greetings from Titusville, FL. Where has the month of January gone? My goodness what a whirlwind trip this has been. I’ve packed a lot into the first days of 2008. The campground here is great. It is County run, has lots of shade, and if the shuttle was going to launch while I was here, I would have a great view of it (of course I’d need that 500 mm lens that I don’t have to get anything remotely close up). The photo workshop was good, in spite of less than spectacular weather. When I joined up with them Saturday afternoon, I discovered 2 people from my workshop in Bosque were also here. It was fun shooting with them again. This morning, while we were in Merritt Island NWR, I saw another familiar face. One of ... read more

Obfuscator writes: We got up pretty early, anticipating heavy traffic to the Kennedy Space Center. As it happened, there really wasn't bad traffic at all, and we got there in an hour, about the same time that we had taken getting from there the night before. Since we got there so fast, we got a great parking spot right up by the front of the lot, just a few paces from the entrance. We had about a half hour to kill before they opened the gates, and we weren't in too much of a hurry to stand in line, since there weren't too many crowds pressing at the gates or anything. At the front of the Visitor's Complex, we could see some big boosters, so we figured we'd walk around to take some pictures. That's when ... read more

leaving the ship!!! meeting up with the girls to start our trip!! yay... read more

We enjoyed the tiny, funky old Cocoa village. Found good on-street parking - very useful signage, great local artists' studios and galleries, charming boutiques, and home made ice cream. A few unusual things happened today - the artist in one of the studios lived in Schenectady as a child (unfortunately he wasn't in his gallery today), the driver from Hertz who took us back to The Schooner after we left off the rental car had a mutual friend (relative) in Saratoga, and an odd little contingent from the RV Park paraded around in wierd costumes dispensing ashes (from a burnt cork in some sort of a local (secular) Ash Wednesday ritual. Our Mardi Gras celebration included a great sunset from Sunset Waterfront Grill, Cocoa Beach. Stay tuned for Orlando and Ocala; then it's home on Feb. ... read more

This was my first trip to florida and i was very impressed with the beauty of this state. We landed in Orlando and rented a car to drive to Cape Canaveral where my cruize would be leaving out of. Be careful driving on the 95 i belive it was because cops sit there and wait for dumb tourists to speed by them e.g. such as us. He luckily let us go with a warning just obey the speed laws. The following day we took the car north along the coast route 1 which is similiar to California's 1 Pacific coast highway. It was a very scenic road and so green. There were huge trees on either side of us the center divider was all nice lush green grass as well as the sides of the road. ... read more