After Thanksgiving and showers in the Ocala National Forest, we headed south to see Florida's national parks. We drove a pretty direct route while avoiding big cities and freeways. Our first stop was in Naples, a very tourist heavy town. We decided against paying $6 to see the sunset at state park.
Crossing southern Florida, we first stopped in the Big Cypress Swamp before reaching Homestead. Most of our nights were spent at Cracker Barrels this week, as there weren't any free camping options outside of Big Cypress. We spent a full day exploring Everglades and saw so much we had to break it into three posts (1, 2, 3). We also took a day trip down the Keys.
On the 7th, we took some time to work on writing blogs and tried to take Aiden to a local dog park. The park we found was closed for renovation but had a lot of agility equipment. The park also had a variety of simple exercise stations with instructions on how to do them.
That night we decided to stay at a hotel since the 8th is Kathleen's birthday and she loves hotel breakfast. We took our evening tour of Biscayne Bay and got some really good Jamaican food from a small hole in the wall restaurant called Yardie Spice recommended to us by the Everglades park volunteer from Bremerton. We stayed up late to catch the Hawaii vs Oregon men's basketball game before getting a decent night sleep before waking up early to continue exploring Biscayne.
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