Totally Off Topic -- Renting an RV?

Jay,

If you haven't already, you might want to cruise through
rec.outdoors.rv-travel and/or Google something like "RV rental" or
"motorhome rental" - keeping in mind you need to account for the usual,
widely varying knowledge & experience levels of the posters, there is
valuable informationto be gleened from the results. Might give you some
insight of what to look out for and tips to make it work, should you
decide to proceed. Here are couple to get you started (used "renting
RV" - no quotes - as criteria):

http://www.rvadvice.com/

http://www.lovetheoutdoors.com/camping/rv/rv_rental.htm

http://www.lovetheoutdoors.com/camping/RV_Resources.htm

Regarding the poster who stated he wasn't impressed with the Kennedy
Space Center when they were there 15 years ago, the place is very much
in the "impressive" catagory - at least two years ago, when we last
visited.

They have several tour offerings that are well worth the time. One stop
that still gives me goosepimples, 3 years later, is the (can't recall
the proper name...) Launch Cotrol Room that they have restored and
added multimedia to. You file in and sit in some theater-type seating
at the back of the room and they show you the history of the space
program - there are no technicans in the seats, but its like their
ghosts are there - as each position reports, the console equipement
lights up and real audio from that mission plays. Video on the big
monitors in the front of the room follows along. Very moving and well
done.

One of the stops is the observation gantry, between Launch Pads 39A &
B, where they launch the Shuttle. I see on NASA's website
(http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/home/index.html) that the Shuttle
is returning to service this spring/summer. Depending on your timing,
you might be able to see an unmanned rocket launch, as they have those
happening with some regularity.

However you get there, its worth it. Their website has a ton of info,
you just have to surf around it a bit.

If you have time, the beaches are fun, too. We've been to Coco Beach
the last two times we have visited Florida and found it enjoyable. The
one time was in Dec-Jan and we where the only ones out there, save for
the Life Guard sitting on a four-wheeler, bundled up in a parka. For
him, 60 degrees was cold, for us from Minnesota, we went swimming.

Randy