Rachelle Keller

A pic I took earlier today at the 2010 Winternationals in Pomona, California. We have given it up…passed the baton…let someone else have all the fun. Here it is, good ol' trailer #14, occupied by someone else for this 2010 season! It also happens to be the trailer I was standing on the top of for the aforementioned Space Shuttle launch sighting. Do we miss it? Meh…a little bit…too soon to tell. We sure miss the people! Maybe more exciting things on the horizon—not that this wasn't exciting, mind you. -- Posted From My iPhone

Extra funny if you've been to West Virginia or Tennessee! Hillbillies are great folk. We stayed at an RV park in Pigeon Forge, TN, run by the lesser-known cousins of the cast of HeeHaw, complete with dog. It was great! The Smoky Mountains are so gorgeous I wouldn't mind being reintarnated there, with the bus of course, and coming back as a hillbilly myself! Photo: http://www.icanhascheezburger.com -- Posted From My iPhone

OK, I stole the title from NASA Television and their video from YouTube, but this is a landmark event—the last night launch of the Space Shuttle…and I'm sad. It wouldn't mean so much to me if I had never visited Johnson Space Center, Kennedy Space Center, or stumbled by chance upon the John C. Stennis Space Center while traveling through Mississippi. It certainly wouldn't mean as much if I hadn't taken the Cape Canaveral: Then and Now historical tour of the (now) Kennedy Space Center. The original launch sites for the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space programs are all still there, including the most sombering Launch Pad 34 where the crew of Apollo 1 perished. It wouldn't have meant as much if we hadn't gotten a bit “lost” on the massive grounds in my little truck and the nice facility security guard pointing us in the right direction and sending us on our way but not without handing us a couple of large coins commemorating STS-117 and STS-119 (STS-117 being th