Titusville

6/7/07 – I motored into Titusville Municipal Marina this morning and tied up in a slip. As soon as I was finished tying up, I saw three manatees sitting behind my boat. I had seen signs warning of them ever since I had left Palm Beach but had not seen one yet. They are very strange creatures. I spent a couple of hours cleaning the love bug carcasses out of every nook and cranny of the boat. I went to take a very refreshing shower and then walked over to Burger King. Gross fast food never tasted so good after eating canned soup for a week. Next, I walked to West Marine to pick up some parts that I had ordered earlier in the week and then went over to a local bread shop where they had wireless internet. They didn’t have any electricity plug-ins so I went next door to a cigar shop where they also had wireless internet. I bought a cigar and went to sit in their smoking lounge where they have giant leather chairs, a 50 inch plasma screen TV, and a Bose sound system to check my email and update the blog. I walked around the area a bit more in the evening and got to the park where all the locals told me was a really good place to watch the space shuttle launches. I began to walk back to the marina and came across a group of people sailing remote controlled sailboats on a pond. I stopped and talked to them for a little while and one of them let me race his boat in a race. I got second out of three boats on my first try. I finally left and did some laundry at the marina and read a book in the evening.