18/12/07

17/12/07
Bahia Honda.
Another State Park site, approximately 35 miles North of Key West. We arrived after dark, and after the park had closed, which in itself caused a couple of problems, one of which was finding the booked pitch. Prior to that we had missed the entrance which meant a two mile trip down the highway to find a place to turn around. The rest area was not quite big enough for a “U” turn, and I had to reverse the trailer, and one of the rear lights on the trailer had a minor altercation with the a barrier. Small white light now from the side, no probs. The drive down though was great, imagine a two way highway, single lane on each side, most of that exactly straight and over bridges. The longest of which is seven miles, with a hump in the middle to let the boats through. It really is an amazing drive.

Morning came, complete with quite heavy rain (warm though) and Jane went on the bike to book us in whilst I made breakfast. Breakfast was going cold when she returned with two bloody knees and one bloody elbow. It appears that the bike decided it didn’t have enough petrol to go any further, and stopped. She switched on the reserve and tried to bump start it, she slipped on the wet road and the result was this.

Whilst exploring the park beach, we met a guy with a similar RV, and I asked him about our leisure battery problem, it turned out I was in luck. He is an electrical systems instructor, and insisted that we return with the RV and he would look at it for us. To cut a long story short, he fixed it, we only need a gas nozzle now for the fridge to run on gas.

The sun shone later in the afternoon and we decided to go to Key West after all, so packed the jeans and sweaters in the saddle bags and off we went, just a pity that the clouds came in again when we were about 4 miles short of the most Southern point of the USA and blocked the sun from view. (Never mind, seen one sunset you have seen them all)
Tomorrow we are off to John Pennekamp State Park at Key Largo to join up with Eric Shipley and his wife Margaret.