Titusville FL

MON June 28

Well the day started out fine with a Cantaloupe that Marian gave me yesterday but it went downhill from there.

What I thought was going to be a simple call to AAA to have someone come out and put my spare trailer tire on turned into an all day big-buck event that will include tomorrow.

I called AAA and they said I was not covered currently and for the trailer would be about $200.00 per year. I called Good Sam Club and they said $112.95 per year, discounted to $79.95 for new members. I’m still thinking about this and will call USAA to see if they offer a service and I’m going to call Dianna.

Next I went to the check in center and asked if there was tire service nearby and they said their maintenance guy could do about 1:00 PM and they set that. I decided I didn’t want to wait 4+ hours so I called again and asked for a service number, called and set them to come with a new tire. I had a spare but they quoted only $53.00 for a new tire and I didn’t think I could beat that without a lot of shopping so new tire.

I understood the truck would be on its way shortly but after waiting a couple of hours and no tire service show I called again and sorry yada, yada, yada, he’ll be there in an hour, he showed at 1:28 PM and when he was changing the tire that had thrown the tread, curbside, he showed me a tire on the roadside that was showing through to the steel-belt and another tire that had a large bump meaning the tread was separating on that one also. Ok that’s one new tire replacing the flat on the trailer, the trailer spare on the other tire showing the steel-belt and tomorrow I will drive to their shop to save me the $70.00 road service fee, drop the trailer for the day and let them give me two more new tires and keep the current tire that really doesn’t show any problem as my spare.

Well that shot the day but breakfast was good and I’m reading a good book and tomorrow back to being a tourist. It was different sitting outside reading and hearing the squirrels running through the dry palm trees to get to the oak trees they really wanted to go to. And watching BIG rain storms blow through.

Tonight I am grilling pork chops and having a cold one.


J F Kennedy Space Center

TUE June 29

This morning I pulled the trailer over to the tire shop and left it for two more new tires, counting the tire replacing the one that threw the tread and the “new” spare I had them put on yesterday that makes all new rubber on the ground; I feel safer.

After dropping the trailer I headed over to the J F Kennedy Space Center and spent the entire day there; I had a ball. I did a bus tour that took me to, well close to, a shuttle launch pad and the assembly building, then to an old Atlas/Saturn complex and lastly to a International Space Station assembly building. All stops had very outstanding displays, mostly original, and outstanding mockups. Back at the welcome center I went to several more buildings showing the history of both the US and other countries and I learned a lot and it brought back a lot of memories. After the Space Center I went down the road to the Astronaut Hall of Fame building, very much the same as the main NASA Welcome Center but focused more on the people and not the hardware.

Interesting facts. 1 = stars on the American flag on the big assembly building are 6 feet diagonally. 2 = there are two main cranes in the assembly building used when mating the Shuttle to the external tanks and 1 can move as little as 1/16,000 of an inch North, South, East or West and the other can move as little as 1/50,000 of an inch up or down. How about that for precision?

I also found out that the next Shuttle launch has been postponed again, this time until October 29 so I will definitely have to knock this off my Adventure itinerary.

I walked and walked and then I picked up my trailer went back to the RV park and went to the pool, ah!