either that or follow the coast a mile or 2 out until you get to ft. myers and then head south west torwards the western end of the keys.
ohh also like deadspartan24 said, how many people? and be warned, you will be quarantined individually for 3 days in sealed rooms to make sure no one is contaminated. you will also have obligations to be in the raid lottery where names will be drawn out of a hat for raids, after 2 consecutive raids if your picked again you can opt out of the raid. and also you will have mandatory watch duties as well as helping with fort maintainence so we can keep it up and running.
if we have enough people and supplies we might post a team at the tower to listen for radio transmissions.
http://www.mississippi-river-boat-trip.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/riverboat-casino-downtown-stl.jpg a picture of an average riverboat casino. Hopefully I can hold out at the top of the http://www.my-indy.com/Monument%20Circle.jpg in the Circle in Indianapolis while I wait for other survivors from the Midwest to meet me, and then we head down to Louisville to get the boat, picking up other survivors who live near the Mississippi River. It'd probably be best to hug the shoreline, and if the riverboat isn't working out too well, we can steal a fairly large shrimping boat in Mobil or New Orleans. The shrimping boat would probably be more useful than a riverboat, with the ability to catch a bunch of seafood and whatnot. We could probably send 2 or 3 people to trail the riverboat in it.
Also, updated my http://i48.tinypic.com/4jngv9.jpg