ADVICE FROM THE FLORIDIANS - Event Date: 30 Oct 2013 - 15 Nov 2013

 If you'll be in Cocoa Beach make sure you do the full tour of NASA!  One of the 3 shuttles is now installed at the visitor's center (another is near me at the Udvar-Hazy annex of the Air & Space Museum near Dulles airport north of DC).  If you are into space artifacts there are actually many more at the Astronaut's Hall of Fame just down the road from the visitor's center. 

Tweener:  What's your thoughts from cocoa beach over to destin?

yep, need to avoid orlando and that's my dilema........unless i cross over very early or very late

Odd, I did 4 trips (3 with the family, one with the pod) to the Orlando area in 2011 and the only time we had a problem was fighting a huge storm front going through the Carolinas.  Although three of them were 14 hour slogs point-to-point so we didn't arrive in the area until 10 pm, and the other one had us camping north of the city, which might explain it.

    If your traveling directly to Homestead from Saint Louis you would take I-75 across everglades then in Miami you would exit to Florida turnpike. That would be if you were traveling 20 years ago. Not sure now perhaps I-75 takes you all the way to Homestead now. I grew up in Miami 34 years, traveled often to Everglades national park while living there. That was the route then but that was some time ago. Or you could get on US 41 in Naples from I-75 and cross the everglades that way, both routes are a interesting drive. If you take US 41 there is air boat rides. Naples has collier Seminole state park you could camp at.  David and Danette