So the Kennedy Space Centre is AWESOME.....& I'm not really even a space nerd. Not only do they have real rockets & space ships in the grounds but you get to go on a bus ride out to the shuttle launch pad. They were due to have the Discovery Shuttle leave on it's final missions about 2 weeks after we were there so the countdown board was ticking away too.
Inside one of the giant buildings was the actual Sputnik & the Apollo Space Shuttle...but best of all were the space suits. I was fascinated by all the various nozzles & hoses that led into & poked out of the suits - but we won't go into that too much!
Also at NASA is a new attraction called the Shuttle Launch Experience. Essentially it is a simulator ride that takes you through the sensation of what it would be like to launch a shuttle....without having to go through all the years of training & learning stuff. To start with though they took us through an instructional video so that we would all know what we were in for & they basically scared the crap out of everyone.....well, me anyway!! Then we were strapped in to a shuttle type get up which shook the hell out of us & flipped us upside down. It was cool actually.
When our space adventure was over we headed to Savannah, Georgia where we set up camp at the Travelodge opposite Hooters! No joke!! I can't say enough about Savannah. It is a gorgeous little town (well the old town bit is), laid out around 25 squares which each had some sort of monument, tree or fountain in it to signify some sort of historic event in Savannah's past. Around these squares are the tree lined streets lined with the typically Georgian houses you see in all the Hollywood movies. We took in Savannah from an old fashioned tram trolley driven by a typically Georgian old man with all the stories to match. Did you know that the Forrest Gump was filmed in Savannah? Did you know that one of the fountains was ordered from a Sears catalogue? Did you know.........oh, I can't remember!
Unfortunately Savannah was cold & windy so we had to stop often in a one of the many little shops & cafes along the Mississippi River to warm up....particularly the Savannah Candy Kitchen. They make their own pralines & these little fudgey things called turtles. YUM! We were also introduced to the best burgers in the entire world - Five Guys Burgers. They are a chain of burger restaurants but their burgers are life changing. So much so that when we got back that night we got straight on the internet, looked up all their store locations & started to plan the rest of our trip around where we could get Five Guys!
Sadly we had to move on, although this turned out to be a bit more difficult than we thought. We had decided to head to Atlanta but unfortunately there was a snow storm on its way across the middle of the country & Atlanta was expecting about 2 feet of snow in the next 2 days. As much as our golden beast was bomb proof, it didn't exactly scream "snow mobile". We thought it best to play it safe & head south instead. So Pensacola it was, right on the Florida pan handle.
Sadly there's not much to Pensacola except IHOP...or International House Of Pancakes...so we stopped for the night & then kept going, bound for New Orleans.
