Up, Up, And Away!

 Posted by at 2:02 am  Nick's Blog
Nov 162022
 

The Artemis I rocket was scheduled to launch weeks ago, but technical delays, fuel leaks, and hurricanes kept pushing things back. The window for the latest launch opened at 1:04 a.m. this morning, but even an hour before that, the ground crews were struggling to deal with last minute details and problems that were cropping […]

Sep 052022
 

While NASA just can’t seem to get it together to launch their Artemis rocket toward the moon, last night Space X had another successful launch from Cape Canaveral, carrying a bunch of Starlink satellites into space. They did another launch just a few days ago. Granted, their rockets are not as powerful and not going […]

Scrubbed Again

 Posted by at 12:21 am  Nick's Blog
Sep 042022
 

The Artemis rocket launch scheduled for yesterday afternoon was scrubbed again, to the disappointment of hundreds of thousands of people who came to see the historic event. NASA said it was due to more fuel leaks, the same issue they had earlier in the week. As of last night, they didn’t know when they were […]

Will It Go?

 Posted by at 1:10 am  Nick's Blog
Sep 032022
 

NASA’s Artemis rocket launch, which was scrubbed a few days ago, is now supposed to take place this afternoon. The two-hour launch window opens at 2:17, and the weatherman gives it a 60% chance of favorable conditions. The news reported that as many as 400,000 people are expected in the small town of Titusville and […]

Apr 092021
 

You know you have lived on Florida’s Space Coast for a while when you don’t even pay attention when the news announces a rocket launch and are not aware of it until you hear the sound of the booster rockets on reentry. That was the case on Wednesday when SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket […]

Fuzzy But Functional

 Posted by at 1:04 am  Nick's Blog
Aug 092018
 

Thank you to everybody who left blog comments and sent emails or messages about the return of my back problems. I had a rough night and woke up yesterday morning about 8 AM with the pain back in full force. I really don’t like to take heavy-duty pain meds, but every medical person I know […]

Well Darn It!

 Posted by at 12:38 am  Nick's Blog
Aug 082018
 

Just about the time I thought I was back to normal, or whatever passes for normal with me, my darn back is out again. We stayed up late to watch the launch of the SpaceX “block 5” Falcon 9 rocket, which lifted off at 1:18 AM Tuesday morning from Cape Canaveral. A little while later, […]

Lunch With New Friends

 Posted by at 12:02 am  Nick's Blog
Mar 102016
 

It’s always fun to meet our readers and make new friends, and we’ve been able to do that in every corner of this country. Not as often as we’d like sometimes, because there are only so many hours in a day and so many days in a week. But when we can make it happen, […]

Mar 172015
 

Who are these modern day gypsies who spend their lives on the road? What prompted them to leave their former homes and communities for a life on wheels? Each week we will introduce you to some of the fulltime RVers we meet in our travels and those who read this blog. Fulltime RVers come to […]

It’s Been Fun

 Posted by at 12:18 am  Nick's Blog
Jan 292012
 

We have had a wonderful time visiting with Greg and Jan here at Galveston Bay RV Resort. But alas, it’s time to move on! There are still a lot of miles between us and Arizona and we have some stops to make along the way. Yesterday started with lunch at King Food, a wonderful Chinese […]

People Of Size

 Posted by at 12:41 am  Nick's Blog
Sep 212011
 

The rain stopped and yesterday was a very nice day. But today we have a 30% chance of thunderstorms again. I hope it dries up before our Early Birds start arriving on Sunday. If we still have any Early Birds left, that is. Since I announced that the fairgrounds will allow Good Sam and Passport […]

Oct 272009
 

Yesterday we had what my friend Greg White calls a Don Quixote Day. We were up and out of bed early because we had a lot to get done, we worked hard all day, and we didn’t accomplish a damn thing! We have a Magnum Energy 2,000 watt pure sine wave inverter in our MCI […]