One of my favorite parts of living in Central Florida is watching the rockets take off every few days. Sadly a lot of the launches lately have been daytime or in the middle of the night, but seeing Falcon Heavy split off during the holidays one year remains a highlight.

Crumbs for anyone interested that parking at Chain of Lakes Park (in Titusville), then hiking out along E Jay Jay Rd, crossing the train tracks and walking south (hide from any train company trucks driving down), and watching across the lagoon is super chill.

Avoids all the tourists, insane parking, and/or Playalinda capacity uncertainty. Also skips the viewing platforms in the park that semi-professional photographers are huge dicks about.

If you want to pretend like you don’t care, don’t look up.