Comments on: Rockets and Beaches

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 23:50:11 +0000

In reply to Julie Dahmer. Hi again Julie! So far the only dog-unfriendly flora we've come across is Foxtail grass in the west (e.g. California). Our blog post about Pinnacles National Park includes our expensive trip to the emergency vet. A 7-month old Lab puppy must be quite an armful! Hope you enjoy your upcoming trip...

By: Julie Dahmer

Julie Dahmer — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 22:31:36 +0000

I don’t know if you see replies like this from long past your blog date, but I am perusing your early blogs to get info on dog-unfriendly flora in the south. We met you last May at Crater Lake and learned about your blog. We loved Opie so much that we finally started thinking about another Lab and now have a 7-month-old black Lab who will travel with us in the RV when we head south for a few weeks in May (from Maine). (We are more than a year from a real long-distance trip). Your blog post here reminded me that our first long (12-day) RV trip took us to FL from MD to see one of the last space shuttle launches in Nov 2009. We were not towing a car then so we had to drive the RV everywhere. But it was great to just hang out in the RV for a couple hours after the launch until the crowds dispersed and we could get back to our campground (a very Stepford Wives place in Titusville–creepy-clean)

By: Kat

Kat — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 21:13:42 +0000

In reply to Rod Reichardt. Now THAT sounds like an awesome tour! VAB must have been pretty awe-inspiring!

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 16:10:51 +0000

In reply to Rod Reichardt. Sounds incredible Rod! Definitely a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

By: Rod Reichardt

Rod Reichardt — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 02:14:18 +0000

We’ve always enjoyed our visits to the space coast. We have usually visited in conjunction with shuttle launches. I was lucky enough to see three. One from about the same place you guys did. One from Kennedy and one from the VIP site near the Saturn V exhibit. That one was around 2:30 a.m. but was really fun. It was in the late 90s and was a mission to Mir, the Russian space station. There was a large contingent of vodka drinking Russians at the site with us. I have a brother in law who works for NASA and he received an award that included a week long tour of the Space Center culminating in the launch. He chose me as his guest. We got to go to several meals with astronauts and a reception for the Russian Space Agency folks. We toured the vehicle assembly building and the building where they packed the parachutes, with sledge hammers of all things. Maybe the coolest week of my life. We are planning to take our new 36LA that direction (from Texas) next Fall.

By: James Jensen

James Jensen — Sat, 24 May 2014 13:21:23 +0000

thanks for update on your travels…That area will one we want to visit when hit the road east.

Jim