Florida - where the weather changes every couple of hours

30 October - left Jacksonville early and headed south. Stopped at Daytono and had a look at the Racetrack and Daytona Beach.

The Atlantic Ocean @ Daytona Beach

The beach was nice and much better than Cocoa Beach which was our next port of call. Also called in to the Kennedy Space Centre. Rockets everywhere and a surprisingly small shuttle.

There seems to be a great discrepancy in different areas in Florida - one minute we are in obviously rich areas (very rich) and next the housing is almost shanty like and very downtrodden. These areas are close together and you just seem to slip from one to another. (When we got to Fort Lauderdale we were looking for a particular Motel 6 and the area was really ratty and there were 10 Pawn shops in less than a mile so we decided to go look further lol.) The last leg of today's travel was from Cape Canaveral to Fort Lauderdale. The day started warm and sunny and as we headed south a few clouds appeared and then it got a bit cooler and then more and more clouds that got darker as we went. Then the rain began to fall ....heavier and heavier and then bloody heavy!! Could hardly see out the windscreen. We are now in a Motel 6 in Fort Lauderdale...don't fancy Walmart or RV parks in the wet. Makes midnight toilet trips a pain.
It is now very very humid.....weird....didn't think it would be humid in autumn. Tomorrow we go into Miami and have a look around.    Miles# 402.2 (647 kms)    Bugs#992   OLD$3.00