This morning we packed up quickly, got breakfast at the Riviera coffee shop, and rode around a tiny bit before landing at the U-Haul store to load our bikes into a van. Mark the Leader will drive that van back to Fort Myers, while we take the ferry. Shawn and Tony expertly packed the van with room to spare. We all walked into town.
We visited the shipwreck museum, which was not quite as expansive as I thought it would be, but still super interesting. From its lookout tower, we could see the Key West Lighthouse, aaaannnnndddd a huge cruise ship. It dwarfed Key West. We toured and climbed the lighthouse, before taking a quick Lyft to the ferry dock to catch the 5 o'clock ferry back to Fort Myers.
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| Abandoned safe in the Blue Heron restaurant courtyard |
We needed to go back a little early, because Rachel and Katie had left their duffel bag with the porter and were required to grab it by 4:30. This put us in the head of the line, so when we got on the boat we managed to secure a table with chairs, on which we could play games. The lighting was oddly dim, which restricted our game play. Dennis joined us and we had some nice conversations with him. In Fort Myers, there were not enough Lyft seats to go around. Mark, Dwight, Dennis and I ended up squeezing into the front seat of the U-Haul van for the 20 minute ride back to the hotel. When we got there, I did an all call text to the group and they all filed out of the hotel to pull the bags and bikes off the van. Everything went pretty smoothly, except two of the yellow Ortleib panniers got mixed up and ended up with the wrong people. It all came out in the end.
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