Friday, November 28, 2008
Key West, South Point
Another turning point in our trip, the most south eastern corner of the continental United States. At Latitude 24 degrees 33 North and 82 degrees 35 West. We will be heading west from now on. At this point we are 90 miles from Cuba and about 150 miles from Miami.
Key West Museum
Houses
Modes of transportation
First and Last Chance Bar
Ernest Hemingway's House
Highway 1 - Mile 0
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Florida Keys and Hwy 1
Highway Accident
On this whole trip we have been very lucky and have seen very few accidents. Unfortunately this one was fatal for a local policeman in an unmarked car as he pulled out directly into the path of a semi trailer truck. Traffic was reduced to one lane for most of the afternoon just a mile before we arrived at our campsite.
We have been surprised at the number of police and State Troopers that we are constantly seeing on the highways.
Florida Keys con't
In the late 1800's a gentleman named Henry Flagler built a railroad from the Florida mainland down through the Keys to Key West. Today unfortunately, you drive on the new bridges and follow the old railway bridges along with the ugly power poles south. At Pigeon Key, the new road and Seven Mile Bridge bypasses it but they still use the old bridge to get to and from the key. We camped at Jolly Roger Travel Park at Mile 59 about half way down the chain of Keys at Marathon.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Miami
We drove 'Granny' through the western suburbs into Miami. We were surprised how Hispanic the whole area is and felt we could have been in Mexico. The Port of Miami had several cruise ships in port that day. But we really enjoyed seeing the 1930 to 1940's 'Art Deco' buildings along the water front of Miami Beach, even with the mid fifties convertible Buick parked on the street.
Fort Lauderdale Beach
Boat House
Canals
Monday, November 24, 2008
Gator Park
We found Gator Park Camp Ground through the Passport America Book, not realizing that it was a thriving tourist attraction. We arrived around lunchtime and set up camp and were warned to be careful if we stepped outside a night as there were at least two alligators in the pond that we looked out on. We could hear the 'Air boats' roaring out into the Everglades and decided to take the tour.
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