The Keys

Highway 1
Georgie's Addiction

Southern Most Point
Little White House
Mallory Square

Hemingway's House & Studio

Sloppy at Joe's

After a couple days in Miami we drove US 1, the "over the sea highway," into the Florida Keys. The road follows the path of the Florida East Coast Railway that was built by Henry Flagler (see post 12/22/07) to take advantage of the opening of the Panama Canal in the early 1900's. We also had a personal mail delivery from Tom and Georgie who enjoyed fantastic sunny and 80 degree weather during their visit. Unfortunately, during their visit Georgie developed an addiction. We took a tour of Key West and walked the streets of the city. The city is a great place for just perusing with interesting architecture, events and people. We saw the most southern point, mile 0 on Highway 1, sunsets, the Little White House, Mallory Square and the lighthouse. We also toured Hemingway's House where he lived when he wrote several of his early novels and became famous for his work. The grounds of the house is the home to 47 six toed cats. We ate at Sloppy Joe's a place where many ideas for Hemingway's stories came from as he drank and talked to the locals. As we sat in Sloppy Joe's the band kind of summed up the Key West experience with this statement. "I'd rather be here drinking a beer then freezing my a-- off up north." We couldn't agree more!!