Florida to Daytona Beach

We left Savannah Sunday and rode south, crossing into the sunshine state, Florida, it was damned hot and we made our way to Fernandina beach state park. There was what seemed to be a half marathon on, running in that heat was taking its toll on the backmarkers we passed, I'm sure they could have got a bus and saved the pain!
So camping at a reasonable price again, excellent. We stayed two nights but yesterday the weather turned and it got rainy and windy but no matter it was great to be camping by the sea again. Last night we were lucky to cook dinner in between showers and even managed to get a good fire going. Today we rode further South to Daytona Beach, famous of course for the racetrack and for the bike events held here. The annual October Bike fest is this weekend so the place is filling up fast with thousands of Harleys, we are heading tomorrow so will miss the main event but at least we got a feel for it, funnily enough we feel like aliens on our "adventure" bikes amongst all the laid back cruising dudes but hey ho. Our hotel tonight is axcellent and crazily costs less than some of the campsites we have stayed in. Tomorrow Orlando to catch up with my niece Nicola, her husband Brian and daughter Lucy for a few days (until they get fed up of us and throw us out!) It feels now that we are coming to the end but I'm sure we still have adventures to live, its not over until we land in Edinburgh.....whenever that is! 29500 miles so far and many tales to tell , hopefully a few more in the coming weeks so keep watching.

I bought a dozen beers and never realised they were very small until I got back to the tent...dissapointed!

Our wee campsite

This is what its about, sunsets and a campfire (and small beers....and some whisky)

Into MacD's in town to blag free wifi, the staff are worked too hard obviously, these guys were on their break

Fort Clinch, used during the Civil war by Unuin soldiers

Quite spacious....

Fi doing the washing

How does it feel to sit on tons of gunpowder?

Very orderly

Big guns, these took 10 men each to work, minimum of 6

They have guys pretending its still in the day, interesting to find out more about the civil war. Not too dissimilar to whats going on just now in Capitol Hill

Out looking for alligators

getting close

but they were hiding from us, dissapointed and relieved at the same time

Watching this guy foraging in the tidal wash

3 bags of firewood for our wet night here!

Daytona beach

Jacuzzi overlooking the sea, not bad for 30 quid a night

I liked this, what it means of course is no people soliciting rather than no Scottish Lawyers but it was funny anyway!