Good, Bad, and a little Ugly

Today's Mileage:  356
Total Mileage:  1144
Present Location:  West Palm Beach, Florida

I left this morning and headed out for the keys on Hwy 1 South.  The drive is interesting with great views of the water on both sides of you, and some of the bridges over the water are quite long.  That was the good.  The actual town of Key West appeared to have an interesting main street (there was about a four block area where I swear two out of three storefronts were bars), but the small streets and lack of parking made it feel very cluttered and packed.  There were cars, bicycles ,motor scooters, golf carts, electric cars, trolleys and small trains all competing for space on the streets.  That was the bad.  I was also surprised at the amount of commercialization on the lesser keys on the way down to key west.  That was the little bit ugly.  I'd been warned about the traffic.  There is definitely a steady stream of traffic going both ways, but I think a lot of the traffic heading north were just people still looking for a parking spot.  So an interesting day, but don't think k I would go again unless I had a place to stay within walking distance of the main street.  I jumped on the tollway north once I got back on solid land.  I know this goes against my avoiding interstate type roads, but after suffering trough stop and go traffic and traffic lights for two days, it felt really good to move along at a steady pace.