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techntrek 
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 Topic: Shuttle Launch (updated with pics)Posted: 01 May 2011 at 8:32pm |
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... and home again. They've now said the earliest a launch would happen is the 8th so we are headed home tomorrow. Don't know if we'll be back in a week, or if we'll wait for the final launch this summer.
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Hodge-PODge
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Posted: 30 Apr 2011 at 11:16pm |
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Doesn't the saying go "Third time's the charm?"
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2011 RP 177, the Hodge-PODge
2011 Mercedes ML350 "A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it." |
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techntrek
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Posted: 30 Apr 2011 at 10:47pm |
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This has certainly been an adventure and will be great conversation for the rest of our lives. I do not look forward to paying for the adventure, though. We spent today going back to KSC to do the Astronaut Hall of Fame. It was included with the tickets we had last week but just didn't have the time to fit it in, so we got AHF-only tickets for today (cha-ching). A really great collection of artifacts and stuff for the kids. We also went back to Downtown Disney this evening to get a sweatshirt my wife wanted but didn't get last time (cha-ching), then went back to our hotel for dinner (cha-ching). We've extended our hotel reservation for Sunday night (cha-ching). I think tomorrow we are going to spend the day at the pool here and wait for the news from NASA if Monday is a "go" or not. Last word on the Shuttle update page on NASA's site is they are currently inside the rear of the Orbiter troubleshooting. If it can be fixed for a Monday launch it will go up at 2:44 pm and we'll leave right from there to then drive all night so I can drop my wife at work by 9 am. Then I'll drop our kids at school late and I'll go home to crash. If they schedule the launch for another day we'll go home first thing Monday and drive all day getting home around 10 or 11 pm. Then we'll plan on being back down here this summer for the final Shuttle launch... take three.
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marshwatcher
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Posted: 30 Apr 2011 at 9:25pm |
I love this comment! As one of those by nature, list making people who plans and plans, I am learning in my "mature" years that the unplanned is often the best plan. 
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tpierce220
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Posted: 30 Apr 2011 at 11:39am |
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Misadventures can be the best adventures of all.
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Adventures with ¡Podtástic!--Life in a Forest River RPod 182G with Tim and Louis and our two cats, Desi and Lucy. Check our website at http://podtastic.info for information on our journeys.
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Hodge-PODge
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Posted: 29 Apr 2011 at 9:38pm |
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Disappointed TWICE! Gee whiz, this hasn't exactly been a charmed adventure for you has it? Hope you've at least spent some quality time with your other half in all this. In any case, your "misadventures" will still make a good story for you to tell to your grandkids one day. Maybe it's not U.S. history, but it IS your family history after all . . . |
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2011 RP 177, the Hodge-PODge
2011 Mercedes ML350 "A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it." |
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techntrek
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Posted: 29 Apr 2011 at 9:29pm |
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Yup, we got the news just about the same time. Found a great spot across the water, just sat down with some lunch from McDonald's which was just down the street, and we were settling in to relax until the big moment. Latest word is it may go up on Monday. I don't think we can stay for that. They say the final word will come on Sunday. |
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rpodcamper.com
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Posted: 29 Apr 2011 at 1:11pm |
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Hate to be the one to break the news but it was just delayed for at least 48 hours.......
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Guests
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Posted: 29 Apr 2011 at 5:57am |
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Ditto...good luck and have a safe trip. Don't forget to bring back lots of pictures!
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Hodge-PODge
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Posted: 28 Apr 2011 at 10:07pm |
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All worth it to watch history in the making, right? One day you will tell your grandchildren about this landmark occasion. Have a great trip!
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2011 RP 177, the Hodge-PODge
2011 Mercedes ML350 "A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it." |
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