Historic Pigeon Key

In the early 1900s, the Overseas Railroad (the brainchild of Henry Flagler) was being constructed to connect Miami to Key West. This 5-acre island was the base camp for hundreds of men working on the project, until the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 wiped out as much as 40 miles of track. The rail was never rebuilt, and today the original tin-roofed, wood-clapboard buildings form a museum on the National Register of Historic Sites. See http://pigeonkey.net   

The Key is located midway along the 7-mile bridge with a section of the old rail bridge still open as a walking bridge to the key.

Start at the old rail car that serves as the tour office for the Historic Site...

 Walk (or take the offered flat-bottom boat) to the Key.  Its is a beautiful and relaxing walk.... allow an hour for then stroll. 

A vintage photo.

Travel: Miami, FL to Sunshine Key, FL (95 mi)

Race weekend is over so we are headed to the Keys for a week.  Our destination is Sunshine Key - located south of Marathon key at the end of the "7-Mile Bridge" and 30 miles from Key West.

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Leaving the Speedway

Building-murals are big in this area

That's a Florida Lobster outside an eatery in Tavernier.

Some views of the keys as we travel at the leisurely 45 MPH speed limit. 

7-Mile Bridge

That's our Resort ahead on the right.

Travel: Pompano Beach, FL to Homestead-MiamiSpeedawy (75 mi)

Our short AM jaunt to the race track for Championship Weekend.  All three NASCAR series (Trucks, Xfinity, Sprint Cup) will race their championship race here this weekend.

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No Interstate travel today.

Track at left; straight ahead to camping.

 

 

Our neighbors.  Probably couldn't full-time in this.  :-)  

Travel: Wildwood, FL to Pompano Beach, FL (240 mi)

We avoid getting to a race track late in the day; we like time to land, level, and set up.  Hence we usually stop at a resort near the track and hit the track early in the morning the next day.

Our best option for Homestead-Miami Speedway was a stop in Pompano Beach, FL.  It looks like they took a couple blocks of downtown and converted it to an RV Park.  A bit close and the first site they directed us to was way to small for our rig but they did okay on their second try and we had a pleasant night.

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This is a shopping mall, Florida style.  No need to protect against the winter.

That's what they think...

That's where we are headed; left a little later today to miss rush hour.

Typical island area of a highway cloverleaf. 

No boring sound barrier walls here.

Look - A Hill!!

The LCD screen didn't photograph well... it said, "Don't be a turkey.  Don't text and drive."

The front gate.

Our avenue.

Travel: Yamassee, NC to Wildwood, FL (315 mi)

A second consecutive long-ish day but this trips ends in Florida!!

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First State Border of the day.

Evidence of arrival in the South

Second state today.

Third (and final) state for today.

Interesting cloud patterns.

Along the highway

Three Flags RV Resort Entrance

Speed bumps and RVs don't get along.  This is Three Flags answer.

Travel: Advance, NC to Yemassee, SC (275 mi)

Its a long way to Florida so we'll stop here for a couple days and let the rain pass.

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A cloudy day but the rains have gone by.

 

 

A friendly guy waving Hello.

We didn't get too far..... This is going to take a while.

Back on the road just as the rains started again.  That's the South Carolina Welcome Sign way over to the right.

Hmmmmm...

Several of these today.

So that's what was holding up traffic... That's a BIG boat up ahead.

Okay... the GPS says there is supposed to be a road right there!!

Worked our way around a construction site behind the house...

Entrance road.