2/6/10--The Conch Republic

Well, according to Peg, we just spent 2 nights in the only part of Florida worth a spit. Key West is great. We need to spend more time here. And we have the Flatlanders to thank for finding it for us. They are our trailblazers. We send them ahead to check places out for us and they report back.

Stayed at a wonderful B&B called the Bottle Inn run by Mark and Dennis and their dog Casey, who weighed about 8 pounds dripping wet. Wallie liked him. We got in about 1pm and had lunch around the corner at the Azur. I then napped whilst my wife took the Conch train ride around town. She then came back and we had cocktails on the verandah right outside our room. We then napped again. Then had dinner at the Cafe Sole across the street. We then went to bed.

You're all thinking, how exciting. So much sleeping. But that is because thetrip was almost a non-starter. You know those pesky little speed bumps they have in motel parking lots? How many times have you tripped over one? Well, me, too. I fell on my right hand and bent the fingers back so that I could touch the back of my hand. Several hours at the ER to make sure the hand wasn't broken, only badly sprained. Then a sleepless night wishing I had taken the PA up on the prescription for painkillers. But three days later I am much better with splint off.

The next day I was rested and good enough to rent and drive an electric car all over Key West! Wallie liked the wind in his hair. That night was spent down on the harbor sipping mojitos and watching the sunset.

So you too can own part of this idyllic place. Just $900,000 will buy a one thousand foot bungelow on an interior side street!

You won't believe this! Wallie couldn't. Seems that cockfighting used to be big down here, until they needed some federal money during the Depression, and they had to mend some of their ways. So they freed all of the fighting chickens. Just let them go. And they now wonder the streets like stray alley cats.