Bye Bye Florida

Well, I am missing that Key Lime Pie....had no idea it originated in Key West.
When we left Orlando, we got back on the Florida turnpike...it has the most complicated toll system.  One can buy a SunPass (like a 407 transponder) but unfortunately such passes are not motorcycle friendly, so in southern Florida you can drive through the collection points and they claim they can read your licence plate and they will send you a bill (with admin. charges).   Hence we carried on believing this; unfortunately, by mid-Florida the rules had changed and you had to pay cash without a SunPass.  Now remember no one told us this and so we were happily sailing through the SunPass slots incurring threatened $100 penalty for each pass.  At one of the next toll exits, Dave decided simply out of curiousity to visit the cash slot and they gave us two tickets and did not ask for money and we were to pay up when getting off.  As we drove along there were a number of exits which could only be used if you HAD a SunPass.  We were wondering how long we would be stranded riding along on the turnpike awaiting a cash exit without incurring a $100 fine for exiting without a SunPass or running out of gas (as if there isn't enough to worry about when on a bike!!)  Eventually the turnpike ended and we were allowed back on Interstate 75 which we took up to Interstate 10 close to the Georgia border.  After a few miles on 10, heavy thunderstorms hit, the skies opened up and Dave reverted to his flashers....which was good for Bev as she was trying to look through her helmet's dark screen and the bike's windscreen, the flashers were a beacon as the road which had not been easy to see.  Actually with bike to bike communication, Bev told Dave he was going too slow...to which Dave responded "I can't see anything!!"  We endured this for awhile and deciding not to deal with Tallahassee rush hour we pulled off for the night.  We then booked ourselves into the New Orleans' French Quarter so the next couple of nights should be fun.