The Southern Most Point

The Southern Most Point

This is a picture of the Southern Most Point in the continental US. It’s on the tip of Key West. It’s only 90 miles to Cuba from here. Rett and I stopped here on the way up US 1, which also begins in Key West. The weather all weekend was beautiful, with the only rain falling on my day of rest.

We left in perfect time on Monday to catch rush hour traffic in Miami. My GPS took me right through downtown, which would have been very fast had about 10,000 other people taken another route. Passing the skyline reminded me of a regular big city except here there are palm trees. After spending an hour in bumper to bumper traffic nearly melting because I had enough layers on for highway speeds, I felt a lot more connected to the bike. I figured if we can fight 10 lanes of angry drivers on a major highway, the open road should be a pleasure.