South Beach Florida

I think I have mentioned this, but I am staying with a friend in Florida. Yesterady we went down to Miami to walk around Lincon Road. I am now on my 5 or is it 6 roll of film for this trip. Then in the evening we hung out on the street next to South Beach drinking a few beers and looking around. Today is going to be a beach day. Spending a little time sunning myself before hedaing back up to wet Washington D.C. I am going to drive back up tomorrow and should make it back to D.C. by the 5th just in time to pay my rent.

I got up this morning at 3:30 am to drive down route 1 to go watch the shuttle launch. It was assume. The shuttle was supposed to launch yesterday, but was delayed because of the cold weather. So yesterday I spent the day at the Kennedy Space Center which is a really really cool place. If you get a chance to visit this part of the world then you have to come here. I went on a up close to our that took me all round the NASA base. I stood next to the shuttle assembly building. I drove passed the run way where the shuttle lands. I watched 2 Imax films, one of them was in 3D which was really impressive. I went to a QA session with an astronaut. I got there at 9am and left at closing. I could have spent an over day there. Over all I am having a great time, except for getting access to the internet. The last two night I have been sleeping in my tent so no way to dial in. I am planning on spending a couple days in Fort Lauderdale

I am borrowing a fax line in Jacksonville FL 🙂 Dialing in has been a real real pain. However I am now in Florida and need to check that the shuttle launch is still on time 🙂

Well I am doing it, for lack of any better to I am driving down to Florida to go see a shuttle launch. I read an article on a couple days ago and I thought it would be fun. I talked to one of my friends who is in between jobs and he thought it would be cool as well, but decided not to come.
So at 4pm I left to drive down to Florida. As usual I was running a little late so I ended up wasting a lot of time on I95 just past the beltway. I am now in summerton SC in the middle of no where I tried dialing in but i think I am in hicks vill. When dialing I here the clicking of the old telephone exchanges, the number I have doesn’t seem to work so I guess I am not in a local area. I will try connecting tomorrow. I saw a dataport in on of the larger Petrol stations. On the way down I could have stopped and eaten at the “We Dare Topless diner” or at the “Gentlemans Club”. I had the idea that it would be fun to take photos at the state signs. but i missed the first one at NC then didn’t realise I was in SC until I went past the welcome center and realised why the last Petrol stop was called “South of the Border”. I didn’t even see the sign.
Hopefully I won’t get any charges for the local calls. We will see.
I need to sleep now

There is a shuttle launch at 6:30 am on the 28th of feb. Since I am not doing anything else at the moment I am thinking about going to see it. So it is an 850 mile drive or a plane ride plus hire car trip away.