Day 15 - West Again

We checked out with a couple of minutes to spare.

TomTom had decided that the best off motorway and therefore toll free route was the northerly route rather than US41 we came on.

So we headed to US27 again this time turned right and right again into the gas station. The cafe alongside had a loads of bikes outside including a fetching pink and white HD. 

US27 is almost as featureless as SR997. Same dead trees, same dead straight and no towns until South Bay; 45 miles of nothing but straight road.

As we approached Lake Okeechobee we expected to see it lapping gently alongside the road. We never saw it as it is behind a twenty foot or more high levee!

We had a coffee stop in Clewiston at Dunkin Donuts before the last leg of the journey to Fort Myers Beach on slightly more interesting SR80...

We arrived a little too early and the room wasn't ready. The Beach Shell Inn is another traditional style motel. Quirky.

They have beach stuff you can take so we got something to eat from the supermarket across the road and sat on the beach and ate before a further session after we had unpacked!

Although we have been here over two weeks. Today we both got burned. Luckily not too badly.

The sky began to get grey to the south and the thunder started and so we packed up. Enough time in the water and on the beach to catch the sun a little.

We'd oy been in the room a short while before it began to rain. It thunders a little and then drizzles....

Dinner? 

Perkins again. This time up at Summerlin Square. The only place still open on a huge shopping centre. All the others, including Winn Dixie supermarkets, have gone and it is boarded up.

After dinner we went to have a quick look at the sunset and the beach sand sculptures.

The couple that run the motel are really nice and friendly. And would I recommend it? Yes. Defo.