Finally reached the Atlantic on Friday, south of the Jax beaches.
While in Jacksonville I stayed with a couple good friends. Saw the hilarious and very vulgar Aisha Tyler. Saturday we drove down to Titusville and Cocoa Beach to watch the 32nd and final flight of the space shuttle Atlantis.
Mission STS-132 is the last planned launch of the Atlantis. We had tried for tickets to the causeway, the closest spot at 6-7 miles out but they sold out within two minutes. So we did the next best thing, found a nice, grassy front lawn to watch it from across the water in Titusville. Spectacular launch! The whole thing was over in a couple minutes but the experience of it all, of leading up to it was amazing. I hope to come back for one of the other two final shuttle launches.
You can see the official video here: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=13894434
"...And if you don't mind, we'll take her out of the barn and make a few more laps around the planet." - Ken Hamm, STS-132 commander.
Traveled a little further south and ate at a restaurant along the water in Cocoa Beach. With the addition of a flat tire on Chris' car it was an awesome and eventful day. The next day I started taking it slow. I decided to hold the Keys for another time and rode the short 150 miles to Savannah through plantations-turned-social clubs and white beaches that stretch for miles. South Carolina is next!
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