Category: Bike Tour

After 35 hours enclosed in our air-conditioned room, Rett was dreading a return to the heat and humidity, but opening the door revealed a different world than the one we had escaped. It was certainly still warm, but a layer of fog had enveloped the Keys, an unexpected development that we didn’t even know was…

While it never got “cool” overnight (our sleeping bag remained packed), the temperature eventually eased enough for us to get some sleep, and thankfully our bikes suffered no further animal attacks. Though our neighbors a couple sites over (the only other people camping in the park) had a bag of their rolls stolen by rats.…

Yesterday afternoon’s minor sprinkles turned into regularly-passing showers overnight, which along with Rett’s cold and general restlessness, prevented her from getting much sleep at all. I emerged shortly after the last shower to find the campsite well-wetted, and the no-see-ums more-active in the damp dawn than they had been yesterday. Rett stayed inside the tent…

We’d been running the air conditioning all day and night of our three night motel stay (and our four nights near Miami), and our emergence back onto the road proved why that had been necessary. The fresh northeast winds that made us skip a day trip to the Everglades a couple days ago were still…

Even though we’d traversed more than 70 miles of the Miami metropolitan area on our way in to Opa-locka (via a combination of bike and train), we still hadn’t reached the city of Miami that forms its core. I’d had an idea to use a brewery visit to route us back to the waterfront and…