Wednesday morning, October 29.
We are heading home today. Right now we are trying to stuff everything back in our suitcases and wondering how everything fit in the first place.
Yesterday was a driving day. We left the Homestead area and arrived in Tallahassee in late afternoon, just over 500 miles. Note: There are no hotels around the regional (small) airport. We drove into town and stayed at The Baymont, a lower-priced hotel but it served us OK.
A recap of Monday: We had headed for the Florida Keys. The result was a mixed bag, not quite what we expected, which was to see a mix of older fishing villages and sand beaches. That’s not what we got.
The place is highly commercialized. We did have an excellent fish lunch (in a place suggested by a local) and the beach at Ft. Taylor (Key West) was nice and we spent some time there, but the rest of the time we were a bit disappointed with how expensive everything was. Live and learn!
Our itinerary for the return trip has several links: first Tallahassee to Orlando, then Orlando to Denver, and finally Denver to Grand Junction. We gain 2 hours moving from Eastern time back to Mountain time, but it willl still be a long day.
Once we get home there will be a lot of work to do, but I hope to go through our photos and videos and post a few photos (and eventually a video) filling in our our experiences in more detail.
That’s it for now. Thanks for looking in!
Pam’s Two Cents Worth:
Take away signs from the south on stores/shops: “Git and Go,” “Git and Split,” and “Yoga, Y’all.”
Happy Trails.
‘hopefully you arrive(d) home safe & well, with temperatures in the mid-60’s and a (much) lower humidity…
Certainly not the “Key West” of Hemingway’s day.
Not many unspoiled places left, at least not places easily accessed.
well, at least you had a good lunch i guess
i’m sure all the furry kids were glad to have you home! hope you had a safe and easy trip back (as easy as all that can be anyhow)