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- 1150 miles in, Springfield, IL, top down, blue sky, getting sick of sunflower seeds...9:33 AM Jul 16th from txt
- back on the road after a stay at a hotel somewhere b/w Memphis and St Louis. Thunderstorm behind me, clear sky, sunrise ahead, yellow above4:11 AM Jul 16th from txt
- @MCapp22 thanks! sounds good- I'll be in Chicago for most of the last week of July10:07 PM Jul 15th from web
- now back to the road, another launch in the books. had I known it was up to me to leave for shuttle to launch, would've left a month ago!3:47 PM Jul 15th from txt
- we talk about NASA 15 mins, I explain abort modes, space suits, rockets, then tank falls away, news changes to obama speech on health care3:45 PM Jul 15th from txt
- SRB sep, 2 camera views, fox news guy talking about fate of space station program, discussion over relevance of space exp3:41 PM Jul 15th from txt
- other guy at bar was former Navy guy, recalled where he was during apollo 13, said he had taken the tour at JSC couple yrs ago...3:35 PM Jul 15th from txt
- "its going HOW fast?" guy sipping a corona at the bar asked 30s into flight... "and you said nothing was on TV" he added pointing to barkeep3:33 PM Jul 15th from txt
- countdown was at 13 sec. engines pivoted, fire lit, endeavor lifted into sky, I gave commentary b/w breaths to bar's 2 patrons & barkeep...3:31 PM Jul 15th from txt
- stopped at 3 restaurants, a planetarium & a bank b4 finding a TV. sweat dripping, nearly out of breath, had to ask bartender to turn to news3:27 PM Jul 15th from txt
- after 1/2 mile mad dash in flip flops thru downtown Jackson, MI, dodging cars & sm children, made it to tv at marriott w/ 13 sec to spare!3:24 PM Jul 15th from txt
- WOOOOOO!!!!!! yeah endeavor!!3:09 PM Jul 15th from txt
- looking for tv inn jackson, mississippi to watch shuttle launch in 20 minutes!2:45 PM Jul 15th from txt
- mississippi! on bridge over swampland in louisiana there were 3 cars and a motorcycle flipped over... scary1:35 PM Jul 15th from txt
- "... but til then tramps like us baby we were born to run."9:46 AM Jul 15th from txt
- "someday girl, I don't know when, we're gonna get to that place where we really want to be, and we'll walk in the sun..."9:44 AM Jul 15th from txt
- loving this free satellite radio for first year of jeep ownership thing... E street radio- all springsteen, all the time!9:33 AM Jul 15th from txt
- hello, louisiana7:57 AM Jul 15th from txt
- my route: I-10 east, I-55 north. best prt of trip so far? leaving "gone fishin" sign at work & having it be true. always wanted to do that!6:50 AM Jul 15th from txt
- tried to push out trip to allow for sts-127 shuttle launch, but realized maybe it's ME that's bad luck? i'm doing this for you, #NASA6:46 AM Jul 15th from txt
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- Name Garret Fitzpatrick
- Location Houston, TX
- Web http://garblog.wo...
- Bio Explorer / Writer / Shuttle Crew Escape Engineer
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