user4735: 
My Serial Monitor is displaying unreadable characters.  If anybody can give me some insight on why this would be happening please let me know.
Thank You.

user43289: Make sure the selected baud (like 115200, 57600) in Serial Monitor matched the one specified in code like Serial.begin(115200)

user10794: Change Serial.write to Serial.print (or Serial.println).
write writes in binary, which gives you unprintable characters.

4735: <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Yo2s.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Yo2s.png" alt="Serial Monitor"></a></p>

<p>My Serial Monitor is displaying unreadable characters.  If anybody can give me some insight on why this would be happening please let me know.</p>

<p>Thank You.</p>
 43289: <p>Make sure the selected baud (like 115200, 57600) in Serial Monitor matched the one specified in code like Serial.begin(115200)</p>
 10794: <p>Change <code>Serial.write</code> to <code>Serial.print</code> (or <code>Serial.println</code>).</p>

<p><code>write</code> writes in binary, which gives you unprintable characters.</p>
