Florida, Moore Haven - Monday, February 10, 2014 - Motorcycle Ride

We left mid-morning to head to Ft. Myers to look around and maybe stop at the beach.  With temperatures in the 80s and sunshine, it was a perfect day for a ride (after I slathered on the SPF 50 sunscreen).

On the way we stopped at Jet Blue Park which is the spring training camp for the Boston Red Sox.

 

 

We plan on getting to see a couple of games here so we wanted to make sure we knew where we were going.  We were surprised to see that they have a huge farmer’s market there every Monday from noon until 4:00.  We just picked up produce yesterday and we knew we would be spending a long day on the bike so we didn’t stop at the farmer’s market today, but we will definitely be coming back, it looked amazing.

On down the road we noticed yellow triangle signs similar to “deer crossing” signs we see in Indiana, but these said “panther crossing” with a picture of a big black cat on them.  We thought maybe it was referring to a nearby high school mascot until we saw a series of 7-8 more signs in about a two mile stretch of road.  The area was wooded and open pasture and believe me I was scanning the roadside!  The speed limit through the area is 50 mph and they want you to slow down to 45 mph after dark.  We made a note to not even go through there after dark.

We stopped at Palm Coast Town Center looking for the JoAnn fabric store.  We wanted to get some binding to fix the flags we fly on the back of the bike.  We found something we think will work.  Before we moved on to Ft. Myers we stopped at Olive Garden for lunch and used one of our Christmas gift cards.

Ft. Myers was crowded!!!  I know there are a lot of retired people down here, but seriously doesn’t anyone work on Monday?  We couldn’t find parking in any of the beach access areas.  We are going to try to go back later in the week, but we’ll try to get there earlier.