Left Ft Lauderdale on Memorial Day to head for the Keys: nothing like driving in Bank Holiday traffic! At least we were heading south, felt sorry for the poor fools heading the other way who got caught up in worse stationary traffic than the M25 / Dartford crossing…. The one lane in and one lane out road servicing the Keys stretches over 100 miles from Key Largo to Key West. At a max speed of 45 miles per hour you can understand why these island people are...

Ft Lauderdale to visit the Nugent's. What a treat to see some family again. And what an even bigger treat to do our washing and have a comfy bed! After complaining about how badly we're sleeping because of our current $3 pillows, Ron whipped out his spare feather Ralph Lauren & Calvin Klein pillows and very kindly gave them to us….so we are now camping with RL & CK feather pillows - so happy! Soon after we arrived, a friend of the Nugent's off...

4 nights in the Everglades was enough. We packed up and after +- 3 hours on the road, hit civilization just south of Miami. On route just outside the 'Glades, we stopped at the most insane fruit & veg stand called "Robert is here" (we had just read about it in the Lonely Planet) - stocked up on fresh goods and a Key Lime Pie milkshake, which was heavenly!! Again, we winged it and found a campsite called Larry & Penny Thompson camping. For $16, we se...

On the 25th May we thought it best to finally hit the road, leave the comforts of air-con and seriously start this road trip for real. With a now roach-free, fully loaded ve-ha-kill, we said our goodbyes to the Aunties and hit the I-75 - heading south towards the Everglades. We took the coastal scenic route and passed Bradenton, Sarasota, Fort Myers and after Naples, found our 1st nights campsite. We pulled into Collier Seminole State Park and set up camp f...

A little mini break to St Augustine beach camping to test our kit out before we hit the road for good......good thing we did cos we learnt some stuff: 1) when they say beach camping, it's not! there's a forest between you and the sea. 2) Our tyre blew and we're now $80 out of budget, which means beans on toast for the rest of this week! 3) No one warned us abt the farking raccoons.....worse than any scavenger we've come across, we left our site for 5 m...