On Mar 18, 10:46*pm, wrote:
OK, now I find from my wife that we will only have 2 nights in the
Keys, I might be able to stretch it into 3. *Maybe a couple days in
Lauderdale, maybe 3. *Is it worth trailering the Tolman 20 nearly 600
miles one way? *Man, I gotta have something to do down there otherwise
Lauderdale bores me silly. *My wife knows I'll refuse to go if we dont
do anything interesting so she is sorta using the days in the Keys as
bait so I'll go see the in-laws.
For those kind enough to be concerned, it turns out my 12 yr old
daughter was diagnosed with diabetes officially today. *Very, very
weird with no external symptoms, just high blood sugar. *Now we have o
do the whole finger prick 3x a day and insulin injections once a day
routine. *Better than some I know but dang, so sudden and out of the
blue.

I'm very sorry to hear about your daughter. They've come a long way
with diabetes testing and medicines. Hopefully the injections won't
last long.
On another front, people tend to get it in their heads that the trip
from Lauderdale to the Keys is a cake walk. It isn't, it's a HAUL! I
wouldn't do it for just a couple of days. Instead consider going just
to Key Largo, it's beautiful there. There's the John Pennakamp coral
reef for diving and snorkeling, and on the west side, some very nice
calm blue clear water to explore. A hundred miles or less from
Lauderdale as opposed to almost 200 for Key west, and a LOT of that is
slow going.