6 Days out of Miami on rented bikes: Touring Suggestions?
 

No responses in the trip planning forum so perhaps more luck here.

A friend and I have six days on rented bikes out of Miami in mid October. Other than Key West we have no route planned yet.

Any recommendations as to touring routes received with thanks.

Norm

You might have better luck if you said something about the kind of riding you’re looking for...or the kind of scenery, attractions, distractions and diversions, activities...

On the other hand, you might not. Personally, I find southern Florida (ok: all of Florida) pretty boring in general, and doubly so on a bike. I don’t like theme parks, ostentatious displays of wealth, Art Deco-themed nightlife, golfing, space flight museums, or brilliant white high rise condominiums marching to distant horizons. I don’t particularly like flat, straight highways, either, and I don’t have a lot of staying power for lazing around on beaches. Where does that leave us?

I do like scuba diving, but I doubt you’re renting bikes to go diving. I like paddling around in cypress swamps, and wondering whether that log is actually an alligator, but there again you don’t need to rent a motorbike in order to park it and go kayak camping. There are bits of historical architecture here and there, and some pretty nice freshwater swimming holes (as far as I know—they may have all been sucked dry by golf club and retirement village interests).

By the time you’ve spent a couple of days on the Keys—definitely my favorite area of the state—you won’t have time left to escape to the southern Appalachians or the less-despoiled stretches of coast in Georgia and South Carolina.

So.... You must have reasons for choosing Florida. What are they? What are you looking for?

Hope that’s helpful, but if not I hope you’ll forgive the intrusion.

Mark
(From Kiev—another flat place, but with somewhat more cultural interest)

I have fond memories of riding the two lane back roads of Gerogia, south and west of Atlanta. Appalachian Mountains are beautiful, and the West Virginia single lane roads are very twisty. There's also "the tail of the dragon", lots of curves. Lots of civil rights history in Montgomery. Get on to the state tourism web sites and pick your sights.

No argument from me, but the OP has 6 days starting in Miami, and he intends to spend part of that time in the Keys. He’s unlikely to then head for central GA, and even less likely to make it to WV or NC. Montgomery is ~700 miles of mostly-boring roads, one way; West Virginia at least a thousand miles each direction.

:scooter:In addition to Key West - and its beautiful sunset and delightful water road, I completed my final US-1 route there (from Portland / ME to "0" Mile). :mchappy: Once I went to St. Augustine, a historic place (first settlement in north america). And I plan to go to NASA (my fourth time there) this next november. but only for personal reasons - to have lived through childhood the beginning of humanity's bold exploration of space. and see with my own eyes those rockets seen only by tv's screens in those ancient times. I haven't been to Everglades Park yet.bier

Thanks all for taking the time to reply. From these and other responses in the North America forum and on Advrider it seems that southern Florida may not be the ideal motorcycle destination but with the Keys and a few other possibilities I think we'll be able to fill 6 worthwhile days.

Norm