Sunday 30 June
We left the Florida Keys this morning only once we had sourced key lime pie. I bought one slice “to go” for $3.95, and we all sat in the RV and taste tested. The result: Tim, Abi and Ross divided the remainder by three and polished it off! The others didn’t like it at all, and I thought it was ok, like lemon meringue (without the meringue, and lime instead of lemon!).
We drove through to Miami, planning to stop for lunch there. We headed for Miami Beach, intending to walk the boardwalk, but parking was impossible to find, so we redirected the motorhome straight to Fort Lauderdale.
Lunch was at a Denny’s on the way, so we could use their wifi. Ross found a review that suggested parking your RV at Harbor Shops, and catching a trolley bus from there to Fort Lauderdale’s beaches and Galleria mall, for 50 cents each. We found that a really good way to see the sights of the area. We had planned to get off at the beach on the way back, spend some time there and then re-board another bus as they toured every 15 minutes, but as we drove past and saw how choppy the water was and how windy the beach was, we decided to skip that and continue the sightseeing.
When the trolley bus returned us to our RV, we then drove another 107 miles to a KOA campground for the night.
Unfortunately we had some bad weather on the way and it has been raining all night, so no swim in the pool or time at the playground. The kids were stuck inside for the evening. We turned on the TV for the first time in this motorhome! Ross cannot get cable tv to work, so the kids watched a DVD I bought for $5 at Walmart. It is a Curious George movie, set in NYC, and it is fun to listen to them watch it and call out sights they have been to when they appear on the screen like the Empire State Building and Central Park! 😉