Day 5, 9/3

The recap for today is they made it to Key West, FL. YEAH!! to checkpoint #2. It was a long, slow, hot ride down and back. On the way down, they came across their first road kill...a 6' alligator! The rangers were there to remove it from the roadway. They were told that they (the alligators, not the Rangers) come out at night and it wouldn't have been good if they had hit it. Mark remarked later to Terry, that if the Rangers had not been there, he would've strapped that puppy to the bike and kept going!

They did 433 miles in 9 hrs and averaged only 47 mph. Excruiatingly slow and so hot and humid.

They are 3-4 miles out of Fort Lauderdale and will continue now all the way up 95 if it continues to look like the most direct route.

Now they will need to maneuver around the asphalt jungles of Washington DC, Philadelphia, New York and Boston.

Looks like Hannah is a tropical storm and not a threat as previously expected.

Onward boys! Vaya con Dios!