Eftersom min kamera blev full av bilder under våra tio dagar i Florida, så har jag bara ett par bilder från Key West. De gör inte Key West den rättvisa det förtjänar, men håll ut tills jag får bilder skickade från Tyskland så får ni se what all the fuss is about! Vi (jag, Jessi, Helene och Isabel) tog Grey Hound bus (yey, precis som på film!) från Miami Downtown till den yttersta ön Key West. På vägen dit passerar man 47 broar som går från Key till Key (ö till ö) och sista är alltså Key West. Jag trodde [View Full Entry]

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As I’m sure you can imagine from my previous entry, we had to get up and get out this morning or we would have stayed on Little Palm forever. We were on the 9:00 boat, in the car by 9:30 and in Key West by 10:30. What a place. I had heard that it is the end of the line and - boy howdy - is it. I have never seen so many odd people in one place in my life. We checked into an absolutely gorgeous hotel - The Gardens. It is an old Key West home that was made [View Full Entry]

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Day 1, Key West PierceLast sunday I watched my parents drive my truck full of all my belongings down the street as I thought to my self "what the hell am I doing, what did I do? What did I do?!" I was left with only my bike and the little bit of stuff that I had packed into my bike bags. I was more nervous now than ever before and i kept thinking to myself "what just happened here? what did I just do?" as I flew down south. I felt a little better while on layover in Ft. [View Full Entry]

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Untitled Pierce Tomorrow I will get up early one last time, I will drive the ten miles through Fayetteville, North Carolina to Fort Bragg one last time, I will go to the chow hall for two dollar breakfast one last time, and I will walk through the post out-processing station one last time. Tomorrow is the last day I will be an active duty officer in the US Army and no words in the English language, which I can think of, can describe the emotions that I am feeling. Four years of struggling through low level leadership positions [View Full Entry]

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My friend, Jo, told me I'd cry a lot on this journey. Having travelled alone for six months at nineteen (!), she said there would be these emotional times. "Crying" she wrote in her mail. "Thank God for crying." As usual, she took me by surprise. Although I'm a Buddhist and know life is suffering, know I should sit with my feelings in order to transform them, tears have been too much a part of my life over the past year or so for me to embrace them - I mean, no sane person wants pain, right? Even if denying it [View Full Entry]

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Again I got up around 7:00 and got going by 8:00. Started running into tolls around Miami. This brought back bad memories of the northeast. Stopped and got a few supplies before heading to the Keys, where I expected everything to be expensive. Arrived at Leo’s campground around 7:00 PM. I had called in advance so they expected me. It kind of sucked in that I was paying $43/night to essentially park my truck. Well it would do for the night, because I didn’t have any other ideas. 1/16/07 Got up at 6:00 and headed to the Regatta to try and [View Full Entry]

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Many of you asked “What do you do for an encore after last year’s spectacular World Cruise adventure?” The answer…Take another World Cruise but go in the opposite direction and visit as many new destinations as possible. It all started when we reviewed the Voyagers ‘07 passenger inspired itinerary and realized how it complimented the ‘06s. To our dismay, it was sold out, so we enlisted our travel agency “Cruise Professionals” to help. By autumn, we had our suite booked and decided that it would be a lot of fun to tell no one that we were c [View Full Entry]

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We love Key West, from the moment we pulled into the Conch Harbor Marina and stepped off the boat and into the party. It certainly is a wild and crazy town. And we stayed at a great marina, with a big swimming pool and Monty’s bar and restaurant. Across the street was Pepe’s, one of the oldest and best restaurants in town with amazing food (which we enjoyed on many occasions). And it was a short walk along the docks, thru the historic seaport village, to get to the heart of town- Duval Street. Duval Street is amazing, what a concept. [View Full Entry]

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It's Christmas time here in Key West- like none other. [View Full Entry]

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Key West Florida is the Southernmost City in the Continental United States. In this little tropical paradise a common man, tourist, can walk in the footsteps of some of most celebrated of celebrities this country has ever produced This little place was one of the favorite haunts of Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, Robert Frost and President Harry Truman. More about these celebrities in a later blog. It was also the hometown of George Mira, the great All American quarterback for the Miami University Hurricanes. Key West is closer to Havana Cuba than Miami. It is about a three-hour [View Full Entry]

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