The Begining Of Travelling And Unbearable Farewells

The day is Wednesday on the 28th of August, it used to be one of the most awaited day for us but I doubt it is still as awaited as it was before. Just the night before, we had just bid farewell to our colleagues at BK and I admit that there were traces of tears in my eyes after that. Anyways, me and Winson were up early in the morning to collect the car that we have booked through the internet. And so there we are and we got the car that we had wanted (or maybe an even better one), which was a Hyundai Santa Fe (a full-size SUV where we can pack our luggages into).


Hyundai Santa Fe (a pretty fine SUV too)

And so we drove the SUV back to Walden Circle. After close to 2 hours of packing and clearing of our apartment, we were ready to leave the place which housed us for the pass 3 months. First, we met up with the Ukrainians and bid them a last farewell. Hugs, goodbyes, and pictures, everything we had, and I was reduced to tears (so as Damien). To the Ukrainians: You guys had been great friends and nice colleagues at work, it was really a fortune that we got to meet you guys, I'll miss every single one of you and hope to keep in touch. Then came the Taiwanese girls' turn, it was really a moment that I have been avoiding all these while but I guess it was really unavoidable after all. After a wonderful 2 months with them, I had really grew fond of them (especially Wendy) after all the times that we had spent together. And so it has come to the day where we have to part and move our separate ways again, after taking some pictures, I gave both the girls a hug and tears just started to flow uncontrollably out of my eyes (and so as Wendy's as I realised). To Wendy and Jessica: You guys had just been great, we had much memories together and I would never exchange them for anything else in the world, you guys will always have a place in my heart, I'll miss you guys so badly and also hope that we would cross paths again in the future.


A picture of me and the girls before we left

And so, we left Walden Circle with our heavy hearts and headed towards our work place to collect our cheques and bid farewell to the people there as well.


The last picture of Walden Circle


Burger King


Adeline (BK's manager) and our gift


Canoe Creek Travel Plaza

After packing some free food for the last time from both BK and Popeye's which we hope could last us for the day, we then headed towards south of Florida.


A rough map on the places we passed through on our way to Key West of Florida, which will be our final destination

There wasn't much along the way besides trees and buildings until we have arrived at Fort Lauderdale. We took the exit out of the Interstate and had a short drive in Fort Lauderdale, we even dropped by a beach and got some fuel for our car (which was really hungry on petrol). Below are 2 pictures of Fort Lauderdale


At a crossroad in Fort Lauderdale


A picture of the beach in Fort Lauderdale

Without wasting much time, we then continue our journey again. The next point of interest would be the city of Miami. Well, it was really a teaser for us as we would be heading back towards Miami once we were done with the Keys of Florida.


The skyscrapers of Miami

The plan was that we have a night's stay at Homestead of Florida before we continue our journey towards the Keys because we figured that we will not reach Key West late at night and pay for the expensive hotels there but instead push-off early the next morning and so we don't need to stay at the Keys for 2 nights. And so we got a motel (Country Hearth Inn) in Homestead which cost us USD50 for the night.


Country Hearth Inn


A picture of the room which we were to spend our night in

After settling down, we took a short ride out into the town to get some food, and so it was a Chinese restaurant that we stopped by and we got ourselves a big tray of take-away fried rice (which cost close to USD20), which we planned to have it during our breakfast the next day too.


A picture of the Chinese Restaurant

As we have to push-off early in the morning the next day, all of us were already asleep by 12.