Ann's Great American Road Trip Adventure: HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA: U.S. SPACE & ROCKET CENTER

From phone call to great road trip adventure!

I started blogging a few years ago when I made the cross country trip from Los Angeles, California to Wake Forest, North Carolina. Blogging turned out to be a fun experience, so now I continue to blog about all of my travels. I try to make it interesting for everyone and hope that people can travel with me through my blogging. To learn why I started blogging in the first place, just continue reading and the next paragraph will explain how it all got started. So sit back, read the post, view the pictures and travel with me via my blog.

One of my dreams ever since I can remember was to take a cross country road trip to see America. Never in a million years did I think I would realize this dream. My dream was set in motion when I answered the telephone and my son Chris (who lived in Los Angeles at the time) called to tell me he had accepted a job in New York City. He went on to say he would not be taking his car with him to New York but would be driving his car from California back to North Carolina. Light bulbs went off in my brain at that point, so I told him I would fly to Los Angeles and ride with him back to North Carolina. Thus my great road trip adventure came to be. But this is only the beginning as it hasn't started yet. We are in the planning stages of where we are going to stop along the way and what we want to see. We only have 10 days to go from west to east and so the planning begins. I hope you will follow me as I blog my way across America. I'm new at blogging so please be patient. I hope to blog daily and post pictures along the way. Thanks to Chris for making it happen and to Julie for telling me to "go for it" and to seize this "once in a lifetime opportunity". I'm glad I did!

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA: U.S. SPACE & ROCKET CENTER

Although I have been home for a few days, I am still blogging about my trip to Alabama. When we picked Chris up at the airport in Huntsville, we decided to check out the U.S. Space & Rocket Center Museum located in Huntsville and only a few miles from the airport. The museum features more than 1,500 artifacts representing milestone achievements in space exploration. The artifact that impressed me the most was getting to see the space shuttle Pathfinder. This was one of several space shuttles that traveled in space and when it was retired it was donated to the museum. It was bigger than I ever imagined sitting on top of the booster rockets as if it were ready and waiting to blast into outer space. They have a lot of rockets on exhibit inside and outside of the museum. They also have an Imax Theatre where we watched a documentary film on The Hubble Telescope. They have a gift shop and a few restaurants/cafes on the premises. On a scale of 1 - 10 with 10 being excellent I would rate the U.S. Space & Rocket Center a 5. Cost for admittance was $21 per person which included admission to the museum and the Imax Theatre. Here are some pictures that I took while we were there. Hope you enjoy the pics.