DAY 122 TUESDAY 8th JANUARY 2008

Knight Key, Marathon, Florida (Miles to Date: 13650)

Yesterday we moved a short distance down the Florida Keys to Marathon. We are staying at a campsite called Knight Key – just short of the famous 7 mile bridge. Our site is wonderful, we are literally about 10 feet from the ocean and from the rear window of our motor home we can peer out to sea. At night we are serenaded by the lapping of waves onto the beach. Just down from our site is a small beach area and tiki bar – where after setting up camp Jack, Emily and Laura played whilst their parents had a rare romantic moment sipping margaritas whilst watching the sunset.

Today was considerably more hectic – we had to return to Miami airport some 250 mile round trip from Marathon. Firstly we had to drop Karen off at Fort Lauderdale airport to catch a flight to Colorado Springs where she was going to a wedding and secondly we had to drop Laura off at Miami airport to fly back to the UK. We left plenty of time to get to both places but foolishly planned some other errands en route – which of course, as always took longer than expected, so we ended up being somewhat rushed. Nether the less we managed to make the necessary drop off and arrived back in Marathon at about 11pm.