Cape Canaveral
This morning we awoke to another beautiful day. We decided we would travel down to Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach to see where we could sit during the space shuttle launch of the Discovery on Thursday.
The Cape is only about a 45 minutes drive from Daytona Beach so we were there before we knew it.
The Kennedy Space Station is located near Titusville and we stopped there to take some pictures. We didn’t take the tour because we had Keisha and although the Kennedy Space Station accommodates large RV’s and travellers with animals we just didn’t want to put Keisha in a kennel while we took the five hour tour. We will head back down another day before we leave Daytona Beach.
On our drive to Cape Canaveral we passed by Canaveral Port. This is where the big cruise ships dock. There were two cruise ships docked today, one of which was a Disney ship. The actual Cape Canaveral is more like a town than just a launch pad like I thought. It is a town and when you drive down Atlantic boulevard you go from Cape Canaveral right into Cocoa Beach.
There are lots of young people in Cocoa Beach and it is true beach town. I kept thinking all the way through the town that when I was a kid watching the show I Dream of Jeannie I thought that Cocoa Beach was a beautiful town with mansions and palm trees. Yes, there are palm trees and the beach is the same as any beach along the Atlantic shores but it was the lack of spacious glamorous hotels similar to those in Myrtle Beach that I was expecting not what I saw. In fact the more south you get on this Atlantic side of the beaches is gets more dismal and seedy for lack of a better word.
We came home and made dinner and settled into an early night as the day was hot and long we find it hard to adjust to the heat.
February 22, 2011.
RV Wash
Even on extended holidays one must still do some mundane chores. On Tuesday and Saturday the Resort allows the residents to wash their cars, motorcycles, and RV’s. Denis took the opportunity to wash the RV and it took him most of the day. The Eagle is now bright and shiny and looks wonderful. When Denis finished he had to go to Wal-Mart to buy a great product that our neighbour Larry gave Denis to clean the RV. It is called “Simple Green” and it easily removes the black streaks. During that time I took the opportunity to take a swim and I saw people that I met through Keisha (Putter is a cute dog and her parents are from Buffalo). I talked with them for about a half an hour while in the pool and when I returned to the trailer our neighbours Glen and Carol we entertaining Keisha and feeding her chicken. Keisha is very lucky to have such wonderful neighbours who are becoming very fond of her and I must say she is becoming very fond of them as well. I sat down to some wine offered by Glen and an hour and a half later Denis and I had met two more people Joe and Barbara from Long Island New York. They farm and sell vegetables and told us that in October Canada has the best and biggest carrots and they sell out of them fast. Hey who knew????
Carole and Glen want us to make a trip the New York State this summer so plans are being contemplated for a trip to Fish Creek near Lake Placid in August (a place that Denis and I have planned to go one day). Glen and Carol also attend the the fiddle festival in Pembroke Ontario and we might join them there.
We have met many nice people at this RV resort and some are disappointed that we will be leaving in just over a week. Seems that our friends Glen and Carol are starting to miss us already. This is a wonderful life, meeting people who become friends and travelling towards each other doing things that we all enjoy. This is the life of RV and it just doesn’t get any better. Just ask Keisha and she will tell you.
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