Rocket Launches and Remembrances

This episode of #vanlife / #minivanlife brings us to Cape Canaveral and Ormond Beach Florida, where I watch a SpaceX rocket launch and then cry at my grandparent’s house, then take solace at a Florida State Park.

[@alisinwanderland]

You pour so much of your heart into your videos. Aside from having some truly lovely content about the places you visit, I am amazed at how much vulnerable you allow yourself to be, and in turn what wonderful life healing this journey must be giving. Thank you for sharing. - Alis

[@BeckyMarshallDesign]

Thanks Alis, for what you said and for the comment and for watching.

[@MetalPirateGirl]

Much Love your realness is pure and always share those memories they keep out love ones that have moved on still here and now we all get to share some of them from you sharing those memories. I love the refurb he did and shared with you. That was great work and so cool his heart and passion went into to what was one time your grandparents the life they lived lived on in the magic of that

[@caitlinteachesthings]

woo! another late 80's baby! i was born in 1989 but as i am in California, i have never seen a live rocket launch. i think it would be so cool!!!

[@BeckyMarshallDesign]

Haha! You’re in my cohort. You probably have all sorts of other cultural references being from CA...

[@caitlinteachesthings]

@@BeckyMarshallDesign mostly to deal with earthquakes and such lol. and fires.

[@Zenithxblack]

I'm sorry you were sad, but it's nice to have good memories. I hope you are well.

[@BeckyMarshallDesign]

Aw House Wren. I was thinking about you in my Prius today. You have watched and commented for so long and I so rarely express myself in response (typical me). I appreciate your comments and your care. It makes me feel cozy to know you’re on my side, because I can tell from all the things youve written me that you’re a thoughtful person and probably excellent company :) So yeah- THANK YOU. ❤️ Ps I’m doin pretty fuckin great hope the same for you ;)

[@Zenithxblack]

@@BeckyMarshallDesign I'm glad you are doing great! That makes me happy! These are weird times. Ps- I was like 12 when you were born.

[@mixedcats_tv4143]

Thanks for sharing your video...

[@caitlinteachesthings]

lol 'wanted to be in a mall' and now we don't go out

[@michelle.shackelford]

What did you mean by problematic when you said the name plantation? Thanks for the pine litter recommendation.

[@BeckyMarshallDesign]

Good question. A lot of the region east of the Ocala National Forest was sugar plantations in the 1800s where hundreds (thousands) of black people were enslaved to work sugar cane fields. A lot of local “nice communities” (not just the one my grandparents lived in) now choose to employ the word “plantation” to evoke a romantic idea of historic pastoral land ownership. (The same kind of “good old days” fantasy exemplified in the movie Gone With The Wind, for example.) This is hilarious because for me, hearing the word “plantation” is as good as hearing “SLAVERY” yelled in my ear. A plantation isn’t a desirable home, it’s an agricultural operation dependent on the particular form of human trafficking, exploitation and abuse that was antebellum American slavery. Cha-ching, profit Even more fucked up, sugar cane agriculture STILL enslaves people in Florida (look up the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, there is tons of human trafficking for agriculture in the Everglades, I have personally met a former enslaved woman from Immokalee). Not to mention Big Sugar single handedly creates red tides that damage the ecosystem SO BAD that a couple years ago most Floridian beaches were offensive smelling and not swimmable. lol, humans. Thanks for asking ;)

[@mcrachelgrace9568]

Becky! I love getting your lesson on this history! - Rachel, Barney & Agnes

[@ibrahimabbas5526]

Is that female peter griffin