Folks,
Based on your recommendations, here is my plan....
Leave the Upper Peninsula of Florida (Michigan) Drive 1/2 way, sleep, drive to Tampa to visit realitives, etc.
Leave Tampa and drive to Venice for the shark tooth hunt... Sounds like a blast, and would be a cool thing for the kids to have when they go back to reform school
From Venice, continue to Islamorada to a TBD place to stay (taking recommendations)
Stay for 6 days, diving, snorkelling, and being a tourist....
then return to the reality of life, knowing that if I were a rich man, I would live like that every day !!!
Again, thanks for all the advice, comments, and offers... Once the dates firm up, I'll let you know as I would love to meet, and dive, with you folks.
Regards,
-Tim