When we usually head to Key West, we are so anxious to get there that we only stop "when necessary." This year, we got up very early in order to stop along the way and enjoy some of the beautiful scenery that we normally just pass by. We stopped on our way to Key West and made some stops on the way back. I'm glad we did :)
![Denise > Along U.S. Route 1 heading to Key West - Overseas Highway (June 4, 2008) [BAG]
On the way to Key West, there was a magnificent rainbow that stretched across Overseas Highway. Since I was driving, my friend grabbed her camera and started shooting. Thank goodness my windshield was pretty clean :)
Overseas Highway begins a mile [1.6 kilometers] below Florida City on the mainland, where mile marker 126 starts counting down the miles to Key West. Following the former roadbeds and bridges of the Florida East Coast Railway, which was completed from the mainland to Key West in 1912, the highway shoots across the southern edge of the Everglades.](http://newenglander.smugmug.com/Travel/Florida-2008/Miami-to-Key-West-and-Back/IMG2235/326788511_CPoQt-Ti.jpg "Denise > Along U.S. Route 1 heading to Key West - Overseas Highway (June 4, 2008) [BAG]
On the way to Key West, there was a magnificent rainbow that stretched across Overseas Highway. Since I was driving, my friend grabbed her camera and started shooting. Thank goodness my windshield was pretty clean :)
Overseas Highway begins a mile [1.6 kilometers] below Florida City on the mainland, where mile marker 126 starts counting down the miles to Key West. Following the former roadbeds and bridges of the Florida East Coast Railway, which was completed from the mainland to Key West in 1912, the highway shoots across the southern edge of the Everglades.")
![Denise > Along U.S. Route 1 heading to Key West - Overseas Highway (June 4, 2008) [BAG]](http://newenglander.smugmug.com/Travel/Florida-2008/Miami-to-Key-West-and-Back/IMG2237/326788524_CDnGi-Ti.jpg "Denise > Along U.S. Route 1 heading to Key West - Overseas Highway (June 4, 2008) [BAG]")
![Denise > Islamorada ["Purple Isle" - Name given by early inhabitants of the of the Florida Keys in 1907] - MM-73 - Along U.S. Route 1 heading to Key West - Overseas Highway (June 4, 2008)
Memorial to World War I veterans who perished during the Labor Day hurricane on September 2, 1935. They were building bridges to replace ferries, which crossed to and from the mainland. They lived in a camp near this site.
The road was rebuilt on the railway bridges leaving the unfinished piers as a memorial to the hundreds who lost their lives.](http://newenglander.smugmug.com/Travel/Florida-2008/Miami-to-Key-West-and-Back/IMG5051/326681923_cTfcT-Ti.jpg "Denise > Islamorada [\"Purple Isle\" - Name given by early inhabitants of the of the Florida Keys in 1907] - MM-73 - Along U.S. Route 1 heading to Key West - Overseas Highway (June 4, 2008)
Memorial to World War I veterans who perished during the Labor Day hurricane on September 2, 1935. They were building bridges to replace ferries, which crossed to and from the mainland. They lived in a camp near this site.
The road was rebuilt on the railway bridges leaving the unfinished piers as a memorial to the hundreds who lost their lives.")
![Denise > Remains of the FERA [Federal Emergency Relief Administration] Bridge Piers at MM-73 - Islamorada [Islamorada is a series of keys made up of Plantation, Matecumbe and Windley Keys --> Mile Marker 73 to 88.] (June 4, 2008)
Easily seen are the innocent looking coffin-like rectangles in the bay just south of Lower Matecumbe Key at about MM-73. They are the piers for the bridge that never was. These chunks of concrete are the actual monuments for this little known epic struggle of politics and human survival.](http://newenglander.smugmug.com/Travel/Florida-2008/Miami-to-Key-West-and-Back/IMG5062/326682263_t8kSk-Ti.jpg "Denise > Remains of the FERA [Federal Emergency Relief Administration] Bridge Piers at MM-73 - Islamorada [Islamorada is a series of keys made up of Plantation, Matecumbe and Windley Keys --> Mile Marker 73 to 88.] (June 4, 2008)
Easily seen are the innocent looking coffin-like rectangles in the bay just south of Lower Matecumbe Key at about MM-73. They are the piers for the bridge that never was. These chunks of concrete are the actual monuments for this little known epic struggle of politics and human survival.")
![Denise > Islamorada - MM-73 - Along U.S. Route 1 heading to Key West - Overseas Highway (June 4, 2008) [BAG]](http://newenglander.smugmug.com/Travel/Florida-2008/Miami-to-Key-West-and-Back/IMG2239/326788553_GbNSn-Ti.jpg "Denise > Islamorada - MM-73 - Along U.S. Route 1 heading to Key West - Overseas Highway (June 4, 2008) [BAG]")
Along U.S. Route 1 heading to Key West - Overseas Highway (June 4, 2008) [BAG]
![> Along U.S. Route 1 heading to Key West - Overseas Highway (June 4, 2008) [BAG]](http://newenglander.smugmug.com/Travel/Florida-2008/Miami-to-Key-West-and-Back/IMG2237/326788524_CDnGi-S.jpg "> Along U.S. Route 1 heading to Key West - Overseas Highway (June 4, 2008) [BAG]")
Along U.S. Route 1 heading to Key West - Overseas Highway (June 4, 2008) [BAG]
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