sobota, 10 sierpnia 2013

Seeing Florida and visit to Cape Canaveral

After seeing Key West I started my trip back to Chicago. First I needed to drive thru Florida, which is a big state. I spend the night at Key Largo – first of Keys – and planned to go thru middle of Florida and see Okeechobee Lake. Unfortunatelly due to huge truck accidnet the road was completely closed  - I had to make a detour via Miami. I drove on a 6 lanes higway, that is currently being rebuild. Such ride is not pleasent, especially for motorcyle – uneven lanes, sand and loose gravel makes are things motorcycle drivers are not happy with. Luckily I manager thru and continued rest of drive in better conditions till I reached Cocoa Beach. This is a very nice place where beaches are very very long !!!
 
 
Morning at the ocean side


Closed road that I planned to take...





On Cocoa Beach

 

Next day I saw the sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean – which was a nice experience – and I drove to Cape Canaveral. This is the place where history of space exploration has been created and this was the reason for my visit to Kennedy Space Center. Seeing Atlantis space shuttle, seeing launch pads, seeing the Appollo 13 landing module and touching rock from the moon – all these made my day a great one !
 
Sunrise over Atlantic



With space shuttle Atlantis




Simulation was very realistic !

 


Vehicle Assembly Building - used to assemply ships before start

Steering place for Apollo missions



Capsule from Apollo 13



I drove further and spend the night and Daytona Beach – where beaches are wide even so one can drive on bike or in the car on the beach ;-)




 
 
Gary, colleague from our factory nearby, and his wife took me today for a nice breakfest. We talked a lot about travelling and things that happends to us during various trips. Shortly after my motorcycle has the second schedule service. Afterwards I continue driving north – still on the ocean coast. I passed thru Georgia and reached South Carolina, where tomorrow I meet with another colleague.
 
Daytona Beach - very warm city

I have been here before - I arrived here during last year 1 day rental trip

Here comes next state on my way...
...and a following one
 
 
 
Kilometers:
Thursday, August 8th: 284 miles / 454 km, from start 10 702 miles / 17 123 km
Friday, August 9th: 116 miles / 186km, from start 10 818 mils / 17 309 km
Saturday, August 10th: 226 miles / 362 km, from start 11 044 miles / 17 670 km

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