Sunday, May 13, 2007 Bahia Honda/Key West, FL

It was time to get serious about playing tourist. The Trolley Tour in Key West promised to be our best bet for doing that. It had 10 stops, and we could get off and on at any of them until 5:00. We visited the Southernmost point in the U.S. which is west of Columbus, OH, south of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, and about 90 miles from Cuba. After being duly oriented and absorbing the history of the area, we stopped at Ernest Hemingway’s Home for a tour. The 43 six-toed cats, descendants of Hemingway’s original cat, certainly rule the roost. Fogarty’s was recommended to us for a delicious Mother’s Day grouper (fish) lunch. To work off our lunch, we walked to the Flagler Train Depot where we learned how Key West became a destination via the railway line constructed between 1905-1912. This railway line, the dream of Flagler, was destroyed by a hurricane in 1935 and was replaced in the 1950’s by a highway built on the old railway right-of-way. We returned to our campsite at Bahia Honda where I became a Mother’s Day feast for little flying critters called “no-see-ums”. They had no trouble seeing me, however, and left me looking like a victim of chicken pox! Fishing in the Keys is spectacular…Rog vows to bring a boat on our next trip to the Keys. The beaches (all sand is imported from the Bahamas!) are beautiful and waveless due to the offshore coral reefs. The Keys are truly a lovely place to vacation!