Planned Itinerary--Key West to Big Cypress

The first part should be relatively easy--absolutely flat ground, low to medium daily mileage, paved trails and roads. The only real drawback is the absence of places to just camp: I'll have to use commercial campgrounds, state parks, and a couple of motels. But of course, it won't really be all that easy, as I'll just be beginning to undergo the adjustment process--hardening of feet and shoulders, general fitness, and the psychological change from relatively sedentary indoor living to an active outdoor life. So, in some ways, this will probably be the most difficult period of all. My mother thinks I'm going to be blown off the Overseas Highway into the sea, but with almost 300 pounds of me plus 50 or so of rucksack, I kind of doubt it. :) The biggest challenge here will, I'm sure, be the discomforts that accompany my various injuries and disabilities on top of the normal aches and pains of getting in shape. I've packed every pain medication I've been prescribed over the past two or three years (most of which were still sitting in my cabinet, as I rarely take them).

I'm hoping to see an American Crocodile during this portion: as I understand it, they're mostly in the coastal marshes.