Arrive in Daytona Beach and transfer to your hotel. Enjoy the place that brings Bike Week (roughly the last week of February through the first week of March) to life. Besides being a living museum of pop culture, Daytona Beach has long played an important role in car culture and you might want to check out the massive racetrack. Overnight.

This morning you pick up your bike at EagleRider’s Daytona office and start your most scenic ride along Florida’s Atlantic Coast. If time allows you might want to make a stop in Titusville, where you can visit the Kennedy Space Center. Continue via Cocoa Beach, Vero Beach all the way into Palm Beach. When Henry Flagler visited the area in the early 1890’s, he found a small community of settlers amid a growth of coconut palms. Recognizing the potential of South Florida, he chose Palm Beach for the site of his next luxury hotel and laid out a fashionable resort that has retained the quiet charm and tropical beauty of his original vision. Overnight.

You continue south and head to Fort Lauderdale, the sophisticated and energetic, casual and laid-back city of islands. From here, you cross through the Everglades. Covering over 1.5 million acres at the far southwestern tip of mainland Florida, the Everglades National Park protects the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States. A fair portion of the park is actually underwater, and the entire Everglades ecosystem basically a giant, slow-flowing river that is 50 miles wide, but averaging only a few inches deep. The Everglades are under constant threat, yet seem to vibrate with life. Some 300 species of birds breed here, as do 600 different kinds of fish and animals, ranging from rare manatees to abundant alligators. Ride via Naples up to Fort Myers, your base for the night. Overnight.

Today you enjoy Florida’s West Coast – Fort Myers, Cape Coral, Venice, St. Petersburg, Tampa – take Hwy 41. Florida’s West Coast embraces all the extremes, buzzing, youthful towns rise behind placid fishing hamlets, mobbed holiday strips are just minutes from desolate swamplands, and world-class art collections vie with glitzy theme parks. Surprises are plentiful, though the coast’s one of constant proximity to the Gulf of Mexico – and sunset views rivaled only by those of the Florida Keys. Your destination for the day is Tampa, the West Coast’s largest city. Overnight.

Continue north along Florida’s West Coast. Take Hwy 19 and you are on your way to the state capitol, Tallahassee. You are in the Panhandle up here, an area that has much more in common with the states of the Deep South than with the rest of Florida. Hard to believe, that just a century ago the Panhandle was Florida! At the western edge, Pensacola was a busy port while Miami was still a swamp. Tallahassee was built on the site of an important prehistoric meeting place, and takes its name from the Apalachee Indian: “talwa” meaning town, and “ahassee” meaning old. Tallahassee has a slow tempo and a strong sense of the past. Overnight.

From Tallahassee you ride across Florida and head over to the Atlantic Coast, to St. Augustine. This is not only a very quaint walking town, but also perfect for riding. Found in 1586, St. Augustine is the oldest permanent settlement in the US. How about visiting the Fountain of Youth this morning? Just up San Marco Boulevard, past the giant cross marking Ponce de Leon’s first landfall in 1513, you will find this naturally sulphurous spring, which is believed to keep you forever young! Overnight.

You pick up Hwy 1 – and are right beside the Ocean. Just a few miles south of St. Augustine look to your left for the Fort Matanzas National Monument. A short boat ride will take you to the fort, which was built in 1740 for the Spaniards southern defense of St. Augustine. Continue south all the way back into Daytona Beach. Upon arrival it will be time to return your bike at EagleRider’s Daytona location and transfer back to your hotel. Overnight.

Today your Florida trip will come to an end with your departure flight back home.