My trip to Key West, FL (Sun.-Mon. Oct. 12-13)

ColdFront77 · #1 Postby **ColdFront77** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 9:17 pm

My brother, sister, their spouses and I are going to Key West for the day. We are leaving around 4:00 AM Eastern Time and will return some time late afternoon or early evening Monday.

It should be interesting, just going to a different place (geographically and scenic wise). It will definately be good for me to go away for a number of hours to place such as the most southernmost portion of the U.S.

BEER980 · #2 Postby **BEER980** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 8:02 am

Well I hope you have fun. Key West is definately different. I spent my honeymoon down there.

#3 Postby **Stephanie** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 8:14 am

I hope you have a lovely time Coldfront! It's always nice to get away and experience new sights! Looking forward to hearing all about you trip!

Amanzi · #4 Postby **Amanzi** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 11:58 am

Have fun Tom. I spent last Christmas there, and I really loved it. We were on a smaller key, just to the north of key west... the water is soo beautiful. Im sure you will have a great time

Skywatch_NC · #5 Postby **Skywatch_NC** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 2:02 pm

Tom, you'll have to stop by the state park where Harry (Southernmost Weather) is a guide/ranger and say hello for us all!

Eric

Rainband · #6 Postby **Rainband** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 3:36 pm

Hope you have fun!! 8-)

#7 Postby **pojo** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 3:52 pm

Key West is an awesome place....I've been down there 3 times and enjoyed everything about the southernmost city!

ColdFront77 · #8 Postby **ColdFront77** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 11:27 pm

We (my brother, sister and their spouse's) left at 5:05 Eastern, Sunday morning and arrived at Key West at Noon.

Not being an outgoing person and definitely not into the "bar scenes," the activities available are 0% my style, however, I enjoyed being at an "historical geographical location."

There is one obvious sign that those of you who have been there would notice right away, it is not an area (Duval Street, specifically) for those under the age of 18... more so during the evening (and all night, but not many teenager, and especially children wouldn't be out at night until 2:00am]). We were back to our guesthouse at shortly after 11:00pm.

I had a good idea of what Harry (Southernmost Weather) did in Key West, but couldn't 'put my finger on it' while on the island. I have known where he worked from time to time while being here on Storm2K and other message boards we both frequent.

It would have been interesting to meet him, to stay hi; but there was really no way [besides the above mentioned] for me to go looking for him, by myself, aside from telling my brother, sister and their spouse's that I am going to "try to locate someone I met online from (a)/message board(s)." - {when we were just about there, I mentioned to them that I know someone online from Key West.}

We made our way back yesterday afternoon at 1:30 and arrived home at 9:30.

I am glad I went and was able to see some place I never have been before.

CajunMama · #9 Postby **CajunMama** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 11:32 pm

wb Tom...glad you had a good time and enjoyed yourself.

southerngale · #10 Postby **southerngale** » Tue Oct 14, 2003 1:25 am

Welcome back Tom!! We missed ya!

#11 Postby **Stephanie** » Tue Oct 14, 2003 9:02 am

Good for you Tom! I'm glad that you had a good time and experienced some new sights!

Guest · #12 Postby **Guest** » Tue Oct 14, 2003 9:44 am

Wow Key West Tom - great you got to visit there. My parents went several years ago on a bus trip and said the same thing you did. My mom got some gorgeous pictures.

Glad you made it back.

BEER980 · #13 Postby **BEER980** » Tue Oct 14, 2003 7:14 pm

Yea Duval St is where it's at. Too bad you didn't go to the treasure museum. Did you get to take in the street show? I remember the guy with the cat that would jump through fire hoops and the steel drummers.

ColdFront77 · #14 Postby **ColdFront77** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 12:29 am

Thank you, Kathy, Kelly, Stephanie, Patricia and 980.

980, I didn't see the cat that jumped through fire hoops. I did see a steel drummer which apparently was hired for a wedding reception at one of the restaurants along a small portion of beach near the closest point to Havana, Cuba.

#15 Postby **pojo** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 2:32 pm

BEER980 wrote:Yea Duval St is where it's at. Too bad you didn't go to the treasure museum. Did you get to take in the street show? I remember the guy with the cat that would jump through fire hoops and the steel drummers.

Mallory Square Sunset Celebration!! Tom, Did you see the unicycle comedian? Those are fabolous shows! The final show is the sunset over Sunset Key.

ColdFront77 · #16 Postby **ColdFront77** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 5:36 pm

No, Shannon... I didn't see anyone on a unicycle. However, I did see the sunset right behind the Pier House Resort, Sunday evening between 7:00pm and 7:15pm Eastern.

Rainband · #17 Postby **Rainband** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 5:49 pm

Welcome back TOM..glad you had fun

breeze · #18 Postby **breeze** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 6:31 pm

Tom, I'm glad you got to see Key West! I went
hmmmm.....way back in '87...(old person
trying to recall)... :lol:

I enjoyed
going to the Museum by the airport (in the old
fort), climbing the lighthouse, doing the
"Sunset-at-the-docks" thing, and going sailing
off the coast. The rest of the time, ahhhh, well,
you know the 'ole Bar Queen, here....!

It's good to have you back!

ColdFront77 · #19 Postby **ColdFront77** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 6:39 pm

Thank you Johnathan and Annette.

I was only there for a total of 25½ hours, the whole time spent (about 11 hours on Sunday and about 5½ hours on Monday) on Duval Street.

38% of the trip was travelling.

BEER980 · #20 Postby **BEER980** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 7:09 pm

Tom tell me you didn't keep stats on the trip.

Always a statistician :wink:

Too bad you didn't have more time there.

My trip to Key West, FL (Sun.-Mon. Oct. 12-13)

My trip to Key West, FL (Sun.-Mon. Oct. 12-13)

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