We woke up to a lot of clouds this morning and were fully expecting another day of riding in the rain, but we were pleasantly surprised. It remained cloudy, but we didn’t get a drop of rain all day as we were riding. On days like this, the clouds actually keep things cool while riding. The humidity here is really high. You actually get quite wet just by riding.
The keys are all connected by bridges. The initial bridge was built in about 1905 and was a railroad bridge to bring vacationers to this area. Those bridges were damaged in the “Storm of the century” in 1935 and the railroad was already in bankruptcy and couldn’t fix them so they sold the right of way and bridges to the State of Florida for $600,000. The State made them into auto bridges and since then have rebuilt new bridges to sustain the traffic that now travels on them. What is interesting is that parts of those original railroad bridges are still here and they have been made into fishing/biking/pedestrian bridges. These keys are very pretty. They seem to be very narrow and of course very tropical.
We are actually staying in these boat hotel rooms this evening. This place has all this old house boats tied to a pier and we are all out here floationg tonight. We are supposed to have 25 mile winds tonight and hope we are not rocking around too much.
We rode 45 miles today and have 55 miles left to the end of the road. I am doing my best to eat all the seafood I can before I leave. I had a nice Grouper sandwich tonight and I am trying all the key lime pie that I can. We had our last map meeting tonight. We also discussed getting the bikes sent back home and transportation to the airport etc. It really seems kind of weird to be discussing these things. I guess it is because I waited so long to be able to have this experience and it seems we have been out here so long, in a way, I can’t believe it is just about done.
A view of the road we are traveling
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