Chapter 31I drove us down to Cape Canaveral. We checked into a hotel in the city of Cape Canaveral as close to the launch point as possible. It was still quite a ways away. After the weekend in Alabama, Mississippi, New Orleans, and back we were exhausted. We got there late in the day, ate dinner from room service, and just went to sleep.
We got up just after sunrise and decided to spend Wednesday morning, simply floating around the little city and Thursday we’d go onto the Cape Canaveral base. The first thing I wanted to see was the Manatee Sanctuary Park. We bought sandwiches and sodas and walked out the long walkway. We finally found a place to sit down, and we started our lunch. About halfway through mine, I started to hear the chirps and squeaks I’d just left in Crystal River. I call
