We left Davenport and headed out to hwy 1 at the east coast. Followed the coast down to Juniper where we decided to take the hwy 95 to get away from all the traffic lights in the small towns which all seemed to run together. We called and talked to Wendy & Bruno Ferraro & Nick Prebble (friends from Alaska caravan from Port St Lucie) We crossed back west to hwy 27 which took us down through the everglades, avoiding going through Miami and Fort Lauderdale. Just as it started to rain, we zipped into the casino for the night. Didn't realized until the AM that the dinner special was surf & turf for $6.95. DARN !! We did however go in for the 2-for-1 expansive buffet breakfast and $15 each of free gambling money - mine evaporated instantly and Norm, the total non-gambler, walked out with $35.75 in his pocket !! We then headed down to the Florida Keys. Checked in to the Jolley Roger RV Park in Marathon half way down the Keys (Passport America half price is $40.50 per night compared to other parks at over $100). The Keys are a chain of coral islands that go for 130 miles connected by 42 bridges, meaning that almost everything here has water frontage and incredible sunsets. One bridge is 6.9 miles long, originally built by Flagler for his East Coast Railway and destroyed in the 1935 catastrophic hurricane.(sustained winds reached over 200 miles per hour with a sea surge of 20+ feet)
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