Feb 24th 2011 - Shuttle Discovery Launch

3 hour drive there, 7 hour drive back...Jesus. Well worth the drive though. This is the closest I have ever been to a shuttle launch; and to half a million rednecks.The view was serene, the temperature was perfect and the launch; 500,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and oxygen lifting 4.5 million pounds of tax dollars off the pad and into space, amazing. Half the population of Florida crammed into a 2 mile stretch of beach, no bathrooms in sight, shitty food options and thousands of water bugs under the mat you are sitting on; not amazing. But it made for some great photos....