One Day, Two Vehicles

V-RodDBA on the Road

One Day, Two Vehicles

Sep 17 – 18, 2026  ·  Jacksonville to Miami, Florida

JACKSONVILLE → DAYTONA → SANFORD → MIAMI bike loop out of Daytona, then south together

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This is the day the trip stops being one vehicle, for a few hours anyway. The bike comes off the trailer at Destination Daytona and runs its own loop north to St. Augustine and back — the Santa Cruz just sits there and waits. Once the bike's reloaded, it's the same vehicle again for the last 230 miles to Miami.

Thursday · Sep 17

The Santa Cruz Leg

JAX → Daytona → US-17 → Seminole H-D → Miami

🚗 Santa Cruz + MC-10 trailer + loaded bike

🚗 8:00 AM out of Jacksonville, I-95 S, 95 miles to Destination Daytona. By 9:30 the bike's unloaded and I'm on foot in a 109,000-square-foot Harley showroom with nothing to do but wait.

⛽ Buc-ee's, Daytona Beach — second fill-up of the morning, topped off at the Warner Robins Buc-ee's before leaving Macon. The Santa Cruz is good for maybe 250 miles towing the trailer, so this one was on the schedule from the start.

🏠 Four hours of downtime while the bike does its loop. Bike's back and reloaded by 2:15, then it's US-17 S through DeLand to Sanford — the long way, but it skips Orlando and I-4 entirely.

🏍 Seminole Harley-Davidson — 620 Hickman Circle, Sanford. One of Florida's largest-volume stores, and the last dealer stop before Miami. Santa Cruz stop, bike still on the trailer — chip and shot glass, no coin.

🏠 FL-417 S to the Turnpike, ~230 miles. One more fill-up around Okeechobee to stay ahead of the range, then the Hampton Inn Kendall by 7:30 PM. Long day for a car that spent four hours parked at a Harley dealership.

Thursday · Sep 17

The Bike Leg

Daytona → St. Augustine → Adamec → Ormond Loop → back

🏍 10:00 AM, off the trailer and north on I-95 — backtracking toward St. Augustine before the loop even starts, which feels wrong until you look at the map twice.

⛽ Buc-ee's, St. Augustine — one of only two Buc-ee's in Florida as of this trip. Fuel and breakfast, tank full for the rest of the loop.

🏍 Adamec H-D St. Augustine — same exit as the Buc-ee's, a mile up the road. Then back south toward Teddy Morse's Daytona H-D, the world-famous one, showroom included. Both on the bike, both worth the coin.

🌴 Ormond Scenic Loop — 32 miles, oak canopy tunnels, Tomoka State Park, High Bridge Rd for the curves. No stoplights the entire way. This is the part of the day I'd have done even without the excuse of a road trip.

⛽ Buc-ee's, Daytona Beach — the loop's exit dumps out about a mile from here. Fuel, lunch, and back to the Santa Cruz to load up for the reunion drive south.

Friday · Sep 18

Miami — Trailer Down, Bike Up

Park 2 Store · Peterson's H-D South

🏠 Checkout from the Hampton Inn Kendall, straight to Park 2 Store and their automated gate. This is where the Santa Cruz and trailer sit for the next two days while the bike does the rest of the work.

🏍 Peterson's H-D South — 19825 S Dixie Hwy, ten minutes from the storage lot by bike. Check-in for the Cartel Baggers Key West Getaway opens at 9:00 AM, light breakfast on-site.

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V-RodDBA · September 2026 · Miami, FL  |  Part 2 of 4 — next up: Key West, Cartel Baggers style