I use Google Earth to play the kml file and EZVID to record the screen.

Double click a kml, When it opens, on the left sidebar of Google Earth find the name of the kml file and double click it. It should display on the map.  On the left sidebar you should see the name of the kml either compactly displayed as a folder with a + sign indicating it can be further expanded or already expanded.  Mine usually have Start, trail name, End as 3 parts. I double click the trail name then below the window of trails there is a an icon that I press to play.  GE then does an overflight of the trail which I screen record with EZVid (the app has a lot of advertising and commercial blah blah...there's an easy way to get JUST the video it records without having to upload to Youtube.  you can find other screen recorders).

I use a 15 speed mountain bike.  David had a similar one this weekend (we did Bear Island Indian Mounds and Tomato Fields).  I haven't had problems with cables breaking or what not.  You don't need breaks in Florida really.  ; )  (btw, we could only ride about 1 mile into the tomato field trail and 0 into the mounds...that was jungle stuff - all on foot).

Yak: The whole route is described here: http://gladesgodeep.ning.com/forum/topics/lake-okeechobee-to-flamin... I will probably change the mm70 south to concho billie portion and just do nobles grade south to Florida Trail (no, we will not ride on the FT) at mm 63 and use one of the ORV trails to head over to 11 mile road, cross that and come down the canal to indian reservation.  That will shorten the distance a little I believe & keep us backcountry longer (that balances out).

yakmaster said:

How you going from Monroe to Flamingo?

So you're going to come down the L-28 instead of through Oasis?

I love the L-28 crossover. That has to be the gator densest place in the area!

Looks like you'd have to use raccoon or Lost dog to raccoon to get across. South of that, the L-28 jogs over and you have the Res cut-out  and then you have the jetport. After that, the stuff south of the jetport gets DEEP. I've used a buggy trail that goes west from the crossover, but I don't know how far west it goes. We were playing between the jetport & the crossover. From the GE seems like quite a bit of traffic, but it doesn't go west too well, from the looks of it, drier close to the L-28 & getting marlier to the west.But I guess you could work your way over to the jetport & along the north road and then over to the crossover. 

Day 4 I'd get off the levee at 136 & go west there to  237, then down past chekika, you just have to go east a bit to 232 & you can follow those section lines all the way down to 288 though the fields.

But that south turn on 288 looks TOUGH. I'd bet there's a reason the old road ends where it did...

I hadn't seen that one before, used to ATV out there back in the day before GPS & Google. Probably ran it, but can't be sure. But now that I've seen it,  maybe try to peddle it before the rains come, looks interesting!  Hey Terry, you got a bike?

Your daily mileages seem a bit aggressive especially in the stretches in the BCNP & between Chekika & Pine Island. I figure your going to be walking and carrying your bike quite a bit for some of those stretches.

But hey, what don't kill you makes for better posts, so we'll be waiting for the story! Maybe even join you for a leg or two!