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Florida Coast

Lessons Learned

Do’s and Don’tsDO…  READ THE BLOG for great tips on Stuff, Food, Hotels, and Entertainment. Below are just some extra tips from Emmy. STUFFDo... get prescription sports glasses for riding. They are biking sunglasses with inner prescription lenses that easily snap in

  • Emmy
    Emmy
Emmy 18 Feb 2019 • 2 min read
The Everglades
Florida Coast

The Everglades

Our ride ended after a late night arrival from Key West to Fort Myers on the “booze cruise” high speed ferry. We picked up a mini-van in which we could

  • Lewis Levin
    Lewis Levin
Lewis Levin 9 Feb 2019 • 3 min read
Key West and Fini
Florida Coast

Key West and Fini

Well, Key West--what can one say?  It is sort of the south end of the USA... And it is really crowded, really touristy, and really, really boozy.  Yeah, it is.

  • Lewis Levin
    Lewis Levin
Lewis Levin 8 Feb 2019 • 1 min read
Little Torch Key
Florida Coast

Little Torch Key

On our ride to Little Torch Key, we rode the legendary 7 Mile Bridge as seen in the 7 Mile Selfie, above. The shoulder is wide; the sun is hot;

  • Lewis Levin
    Lewis Levin
Lewis Levin 7 Feb 2019 • 1 min read
Duck Key
Florida Coast

Duck Key

On the way to Duck Key, we stopped at the world famous Diving Museum. One couple assembled a vast collection of antique diving gear and then added enough modern equipment

  • Lewis Levin
    Lewis Levin
Lewis Levin 6 Feb 2019 • 2 min read
Key Largo
Florida Coast

Key Largo

The ride from Homestead to Key Largo begins on the causeway supporting US 1—the only way to the keys. This is a black, asphalt strip with a wide and

  • Lewis Levin
    Lewis Levin
Lewis Levin 5 Feb 2019 • 1 min read
Florida Coast

Homestead

We rode the one paved, often broken, curvaceous bike trail from downtown Miami 20 miles to Homestead. In Miami, the trail is under the elevated commuter rail. From Miami it winds through the suburbs, including Coral Gables, home of the University of Miami. Before

  • Lewis Levin
    Lewis Levin
Lewis Levin 4 Feb 2019 • 1 min read
Miami and the Fabulous Fountainebleau
Florida Coast

Miami and the Fabulous Fountainebleau

Wow, the sun does shine in Florida. We finally got the sunny, warm riding day we'd always dreamed of. With the wind at our backs we flew into Miami, through

  • Lewis Levin
    Lewis Levin
Lewis Levin 3 Feb 2019 • 1 min read
Doing Business
Florida Coast

Doing Business

We didn’t come prepared to do business on this ride. We had 3 sets of riding clothes and only 2 sets of “evening” clothes. We assumed that the evening

  • Lewis Levin
    Lewis Levin
Lewis Levin 2 Feb 2019 • 1 min read
Florida Coast

Sun Soaked Way

Another long overdue update on our trip. Finally, we are enjoying the sun-soaked rides we sought rather than the just soaked rides. We moved up our rest day from day 10 to day 9 in Palm Beach, which made it easy to attend a

  • Lewis Levin
    Lewis Levin
Lewis Levin 1 Feb 2019 • 1 min read
Florida Coast

Re-union with Genie

Today, we are riding from Hutchinson Island through Jupiter to Palm Beach. In Jupiter, we’d be meeting Emmy’s boarding school classmate from Westover School, Genie Jessup Murray. We thought we could ride out the storm. But, that was not to be.  Just

  • Lewis Levin
    Lewis Levin
Lewis Levin 31 Jan 2019 • 1 min read
Florida Coast

(Not) Navy Seals

We are so not Navy Seals. We visited the National Navy UDT-Seal Museum.  We learned that real Navy Seals are incredibly tough, well-trained, courageous, patriotic, and dedicated to each of their team members.  They truly leave no one behind. The stories in the Presidential

  • Lewis Levin
    Lewis Levin
Lewis Levin 30 Jan 2019 • 1 min read
Florida Coast

Eat the Local Catch

It always pays to eat local and eat the local catch.  In Florida, the local catch includes grouper, wahoo, and shrimp.  You can have them all fried, grilled, or blackened.  You can have them presented in salads, sandwiches, tacos, and platters. Emmy’s favorite

  • Lewis Levin
    Lewis Levin
Lewis Levin 28 Jan 2019 • 1 min read
Florida Coast

Cousins

Today, we rode to Indian Harbor Beach.  What’s a little wind? ...say, 18 mph.  What’s a little rain? ...say,  an inch. Ya know wind at your back is not so bad even if it is pelting rain at our Goretex ensconsed upper

  • Lewis Levin
    Lewis Levin
Lewis Levin 27 Jan 2019 • 1 min read
Florida Coast

Day Five

Another uneventful day on which we did not get drenched.  Hutchinson Island is long and skinny and possibly not likely to be above sea level in 50 years.  Actually, it still will be but storm surge won’t see much of a barrier. We

  • Lewis Levin
    Lewis Levin
Lewis Levin 27 Jan 2019 • 1 min read
Florida Coast

Time to Catch Up Day 9

So much has happened.  An update is way overdue. Now we are catching up with a barrage, yes—I say a veritable barrage of posts.  See all the posts below for all of the updates. Uneventful [day 4] (https://a-view.org/floridacoast/post/day-four/

  • Lewis Levin
    Lewis Levin
Lewis Levin 26 Jan 2019 • 1 min read
Florida Coast

Day Four

Day 4 as uneventful but long: 51.4 miles.  We arrived in Titusville, whose primary claim to fame is the jumping off point for visitors to the Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral. We didn’t schedule time to visit—this time.  But, if

  • Lewis Levin
    Lewis Levin
Lewis Levin 26 Jan 2019 • 1 min read
Florida Coast

Day Three

Today, we sailed along A1A with the wind at our backs, often riding seemingly with no effort at all at 14 to 16 miles per hour.  The path was nearly straight for forty-six miles. We started at a temperature of 42 in Florida.  It

  • Lewis Levin
    Lewis Levin
Lewis Levin 25 Jan 2019 • 1 min read
Day Two
Florida Coast

Day Two

Today’s ride started out cold and quickly warmed up.  Wind from ahead shifted to wind from the side.  Thirty-seven miles to Butlers Beach—all along A1A. We went past

  • Lewis Levin
    Lewis Levin
Lewis Levin 24 Jan 2019 • 1 min read
Breezy Day One
Florida Coast

Breezy Day One

Today was our send-off on day one after spending 3 days with best hostess Prudy, affectionately known as “Granny P,” and her trusty and ever-present sidekick, Lulu. We did a

  • Lewis Levin
    Lewis Levin
Lewis Levin 23 Jan 2019 • 2 min read
Pre Start
Florida Coast

Pre Start

We are getting ready for the start of our ride down the Florida coast from Fernandina Beach to Key West, then by ferry to Marco Island and across the Everglades

  • Lewis Levin
    Lewis Levin
Lewis Levin 10 Jan 2019 • 2 min read
A bunch of Pics
Bike Across America

A bunch of Pics

Maybe roughly in the order of the trip, but not guaranteed. Archie takes a break on the Going-to-the-Sun road: Glacier National Park selfie: Glacier National Park view to the pass

  • Lewis Levin
    Lewis Levin
Lewis Levin 11 Sep 2017 • 2 min read
Bike Across America

We Did It!

Here is the video of crossing the finish line: Finish Line video link.mov On August 18 we rode into Great Cranberry Island after a short boat ride from Southwest Harbor, Maine. It was raining and a bit chilly wearing only the “maillot jaune”

  • Lewis Levin
    Lewis Levin
Lewis Levin 7 Sep 2017 • 1 min read
Bike Across America

The Send Off

Our host, David, at the Williams Pond Lodge near Bucksport, Maine, sends us off with a stirring bagpipe rendition of Chariots of Fire, which David informed us, was really an old Scottish folk song (weren’t most great British things first Scottish?). Bagpipes Sendoff

  • Lewis Levin
    Lewis Levin
Lewis Levin 7 Sep 2017 • 1 min read
Bike Across America

Bike Shops Across America

Early on I passed up most bike shops. We had what we needed. Then, the quest for the perfect seat began; I needed more spare tubes and patch kits, and the great rim tape fiasco began and was resolved. Saw a lot of bike

  • Lewis Levin
    Lewis Levin
Lewis Levin 7 Sep 2017 • 4 min read
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