By Gary V. Vaughan under Bikes & Cars, Travel
With more than 600 miles and almost 20 hours of hard riding over the last 3 days, we wanted to make a gentle start to today before embarking upon the final 250 mile leg back to Orlando. After a late breakfast we packed up and went directly to the lovely beach pictured above, where Tave [...]
By Gary V. Vaughan under Bikes & Cars, Travel
Still exhausted from the previous day’s riding, we barely checked out from the hotel in time (with Megan still half asleep) as we set off for the day. We stopped for an early lunch right away at a nearby Chili’s so that we could orient ourselves. With over 200 miles left to Key West, and [...]
By Gary V. Vaughan under Bikes & Cars, Travel
We made a surprisingly early start to the day, and had covered the 65 miles to Melbourne Beach by 11am leaving us with the rest of the day to enjoy the A1A along the intracoastal highway. Although the plan was to make it to Miami by the end of the day, I hadn’t counted on [...]
By Gary V. Vaughan under Bikes & Cars, Travel
Down to our last two and half weeks on this side of the Atlantic for a while, and enjoying the company of Tave’s cousin Megan for a week, we’re going all out to see as much as we can in Florida before we leave. I’m not much for the beach myself (I can’t swim; I [...]
By Gary V. Vaughan under Bikes & Cars, Travel
With all the sun we’ve been having recently, we planned a weekend road trip to Deerfield Beach (just north of Fort Lauderdale) after being handed a flyer for the South Florida Tattoo Convention by one of the guys working in the Service Dept. of our local Orlando Harley Davidson dealership. On Saturday morning we gunned [...]