Florida Everglades Travelogue:
Thu, Jan 22 2003


We were supposed to leave at 6:45am on Thursday to get a full day of exploring in, since we only had 3 days down there. Our flight back was at 6:15am on Sunday. Somehow I thought Bob was in charge of getting us up and he thought there was a second alarm. In any case, we got to the airport just as they were closing the airplane door and despite Worcester airport being teeny, with only 10 people on the flight, they wouldn't let us on. We rescheduled for their next flight out - around 11 - and made that one. We did get to see the lovely sunrise, an unusual occurrence for us!



Worcester was 0F when we left, and Philadelphia, our stopover, was also frigid. Everything we flew over was pretty solid ice. Here is a shot from the plane of the waterways near Philadelphia, frozen solid.



The layover was quick, and Bob got me some delicious sushi rolls and Godiva chocolate to get me into a vacation spirit. Soon we were on our way south. Finally we arrived in Florida! Palm trees and sunshine, a balmy 70F. They were complaining about the cold, too, but we didn't mind it at all. We grabbed our car and headed south. Note that even the car rental place overlooked trees full of egrets!



We stopped at several places along the way looking for a GPS so we could track our progress. We finally found one at Boater's World, and right across the street was a Japanese tepanyaki restaurant! I of course wished to add this to our Japanese Restaurant Reviews, so in we went. It was tasty! Check out my Review of Samurai for all the details.

Quite full and happy, we continued south out of Miami, down Route 1. I love the great burma-shave style signs that encourage patience - I have photos of those later on in the trip. We remembered all the sights in Key Largo from our previous trip - we'd stayed on Tavernier that time. This time we went a bit further in, since one hope for the trip was to do some fishing. We drove out to Islamorada (pronounced EYE-lah-more-ah-dah) which is the sports fishing capital of the world. Our motel, the Smuggler's Cove, is a marina, and our room looked out on some GORGEOUS multi-million-dollar boats. Talk about a room with a view!!

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