![]() So, we took the Greyhound bus to Key Largo – which only took a couple of hours – and was a very pleasant and interesting ride through the everglades on Highway One. ![]() They have planned rest stops, so you can stretch your legs, and also get some refreshments along the way. The buses are comfortable, clean, and well equipped. You can find out about Greyhound Bus routes and schedules and bus stops and how to buy tickets online. What could be more iconic than a Greyhound bus in the USA? Instead, we decided to travel from Miami to Key West on US Highway One by Greyhound Bus. We had thought about renting a classic red Mustang convertible for our classic road trip. I’d imagined us driving over the famous bridges in style and with the sun on our faces and the wind in our hair.īut, when we saw the sheer amount of crazy traffic coming in and out of Miami, we started to consider options that would leave the driving to Key West to someone else. The history, the romance, the Hemingway House, food, drink, and the tropical ambience for which Key West is so famous! I couldn’t wait to experience all that Key West had to offer us. The shortest is Harris Gap which is only thirty-seven feet long.Īnd, each island that makes up the Florida Keys offers unique features and the first one you encounter is Key Largo, which promises some of the best diving, snorkelling, fishing and boating experiences in the Keys.Īs the backpacking husband is a very keen scuba diver, we decided to stop off for a couple of nights on Key Largo, to allow for some diving and for sightseeing and to enjoy some laid-back nightlife before continuing on our road trip to Key West. ![]() The longest is of course the famous Seven-Mile Bridge. We knew The Keys were connected by bridges and causeways and so I did a bit of research online to discover that there are actually forty-two bridges connecting these islands. It seemed to us that The Florida Keys would be the perfect destination to get away from the hustle and bustle of the tourist hotspots of Orlando, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Daytona Beach and the Space Coast. Miami was hot and crazy as we joined the jostling crowds on Ocean Driveīut soon, it made sense to us to head out of town, and so we decided to take a road trip – one we’d always aspired to do one day – and that was to travel down to The Florida Keys.Īll the way to Key West and to the southernmost point of the USA on Highway One. In Miami the weather was hot and the atmosphere was crazy as we joined the jostling crowds walking on cordoned-off on Ocean Drive to slowly explore the famous beach and the colourful Art-Deco area on that busy holiday weekend. We’d just landed in Miami from Honduras Central America – and we were feeling a bit of culture shock about being back in the first world – and somehow we’d also lost track of time. That’s a bit crazy I know – when it’s one of the biggest and busiest holidays of the year in the US – but, in our defence, we had been travelling for a while off-grid. We’d arrived in Florida USA at the end of May not realising it was Memorial Weekend. And how we ended up doing this road trip by Greyhound Bus! I want to share with you one of our most exciting road trips – one of the great All-American Road Trips in fact – the one hundred and sixty-five-mile iconic road trip from Miami to Key West on Overseas Highway also known as US Highway One. Listen to me narrating this post on a podcast! PODCAST: Prefer to listen rather than read?
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