Day 21 – Thursday, February 17, 2011 - Key West, FL
We are taking it easy today, no up before the sun for a scuba dive or a ferry ride. Today we are going to point the Motorcycle EAST and just ride US#1 to Marathon for Lunch and to photograph some old FEC Railroad Bridges and just have a great day on the road. This is a NO AGENDA day.
I should note that since our arrival almost two week ago there has been no rain, and today it is sunny and +22c at 9AM, this will go to a high of +27c by 1pm, so it is “hot and sunny”, not much traffic again on our Eastbound journey and if fact we reach Marathon (MM#50) in about 1 hour and 15 minutes. We stopped at Pigeon Key as there Tourist Information Centre is in a old FEC Passenger car, it has trucks (wheels) date marked 1915, and there was a complete passenger train “stuck” which was blown over in the hurricane of 1935 in Marathon, so is this has to be one of the cars ??
Karen with the motorcycle at Seven Mile Bridge (Florida Keys)
It is on the North side of US1, again this restaurant features a lot of great seafood and I would recommend a visit if passing by.
At 1:20pm, we are starting our return to Key West on US#1, remember there is one road out and the same one back.
We stopped at Seven Mile Bridge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Mile_Bridge) to take some motorcycle photos of Karen and I with the motorcycle and a few promo shots of Boris and Theodore, and again we stopped at Big Pine Key to do some more shots.
I am beginning to really like Big Pine Key, perhaps that is a future site of “Pinewood the Island Resort”, as some of you know our home in Niagara-on-the-Lake is officially named “Pinewood”.
Karen is becoming more comfortable on the bike, and now talks more on the headset radio than ever before that is when she is not sleeping – and yes she can sleep on the back of 100kmh motorcycle and not fall off. I am not sure that she would ever take up motorcycling, but I did offer to buy here a scooter (has to be red to match my bike), so the offer is on the table.
On our way through Big Pine Key we did stop at the Liquor Store as we had run out of wine for the evening – and that just does not happen in Key West - that one is out of wine (in fact one could be “sent packing” if this incident was ever to get out the locals here).
Spent the rest of the afternoon at the pool here at the condo – doing nothing and soaking up the +26c sunshine, sweat.
Ken and Karen in Key West, FL
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