I made it to Cape Canaveral!  The last 20 miles were in the dark and the last 10 of that were on a busy highway with almost no shoulder.  Uugh.

I didn’t know, but there was a launch of a Space X mission.  The campground is just across the Indian River from the Cape.  The launch was neat.  You can see the rocket in the top left corner.  The plume is below that.

I planned to bike over to the visitor center for tours while I’m here.  I almost made it.  I had gone about 5 miles across the bridge when a nice NASA police officer pulled me over.  I was in the right turn lane for the visitor center!

I didn’t mind the highway.  It was two lanes in each direction with no shoulder.  I just “claimed the lane” and made traffic go around me.

It turned out that the entire NASA police staff went nuts.   I think they just implemented a no biking policy.  Ernie said it was because a biker was killed recently on NASA property.

It was funny in a way.  Another officer said to Ernie something like “Well it’s not a bike, what do we do?”