Key West

We left Key Largo and continued south on Route 1.  That evening we arrived in Key West.

The next day we visited some of the sites including the Southernmost Point and the Hemingway House.

This was the lighthouse across the street from the Hemingway House.  His friends used to joke that he used the lighthouse as a beacon to find his way home after leaving Sloppy Joe's each night.

Below is Ernest Hemingway's Key West home from the 1930's.

We saw some of the famous six-toed Hemingway cats.

The $20k swimming pool Pauline had installed while Hemingway was away on "business"

The carriage house where Hemingway worked.  This is where he wrote 70% of his life's work on the original typewriter pictured below.

We left Hemingway's and headed down Duval Street for some Key Lime Pie.

After our pie we headed for the Key West Bight and the nearby cruise ship port.

Then we walked through the city and took in the sights.

On our way to Smathers Beach we saw another Intervec Falcon motorhome with the same color scheme as ours!

George rode out to the airport one evening to watch some of the planes taking off and coming in.  He came across a small dilapidated  Cubana Airlines plane with tail number CU-T1294; recall US does not have diplomatic ties with Cuba and there shouldn't be a Cuban plane on US soil. After a little research he realized that this plane was hijacked and landed at Key West in 2003.  Below is a file photo of the plane and you can read more about the plane's story here.

We spent some time at the beach then headed north to Bahia Honda State Park.