Blogs from Keys, Florida, United States, North America - page 11

Here we are....the last entry of our little North America excursion...don't worry too much....school is only due to start end of February for Leslie and Tiffany. Another iconic place for our last entry, and actually...more than a place, another iconic drive, this time to the Southern Point of the United States. I had the chance to drive to Key West some years ago with the godfather of Leslie...and that drive was something...I had to do it with Leslie and Tiffany. As we have been driving few miles since the begining of December 2012...few more miles were not really an issue...and the Mustang is the only choice to drive the Keys (with few bags in the trunk!). We could have stay in Key West, but this is high season....and I had no plan to party hard once ... read more

After our Miami stay we had planned two or more nights in the Florida Keys. We had booked hotels for one night in Marathon and one (Christmas Eve) in Key West. For Christmas we didn't want to take any chances, after that we have no bookings and have planned go where we feel like that particular day! So we set out towards the Keys in our Volkswagen, and after some driving we realized we were already out on the islands. To begin with it was a little hard to see, there were woods all around us and nothing had really changed since we left Miami, but once we got to the Middle keys the landscape started to look more like the archipelago outside of Turku, spiced with an occasional palm. And a little before Marathon the ... read more

We've been wintering in Key West, Florida for 4 years now and have absolutely fell in love with the place! Having experienced various other destinations around Florida and the Golf areas, you really need to be that far south to avoid the occasional rainy, cold weather that sometimes seeps into Florida in the winter. And anyone who's been knows that the weather can get real bad even in Miami in January. In fact, in 2011 we watched as frost warnings were issues north of the Keys while the worst we had to deal with was overnight lows approaching the 50s. Another big draw for us is the ability to get to Key West by car. We love to drive and our lifestyles allow us get to wherever we're going at whatever pace pleases us. These days, ... read more

We've had two very different days in Key West. One clear and hot, the other raining and cool. Yesterday was clear, today is rainy. Rainy rainy rainy. We left our Key Largo place at about 10am, and started driving south on Highway 1. We crossed Islamorada, Marathon and all the other little keys along the road to Key West. We stopped along the road at the Bahia Honda State Park, taking advantage of the beautiful beaches there, lying under our beach umbrellas, reading, walking the beaches and spending time in the waters. The beaches at Bahia honda are somewhat famous, having won a best beach in the US award in the 1990s, so we expected alot, and it delivered. The best was Calusa beach, with its bright blue water, shallow entry beach, warm water and soft ... read more

It was a change of pace today. While our other days on the trip have generally been action packed, with hiking, walking, tours and lots of stops, today was just one location, and lots of relaxing. We went to the John Pennekamp State Park, and enjoyed time on there beaches. It was anice opportunity to swim, snorkle a bit and lie on a towel and read in the shade of a tree. The first beach you encounter at Pennekamp is Cannon beach. We stayed an hour or two at Cannon beach. It is a rocky and hard to walk on beach, but there are trees to find shade under, and some remnants from a Spanish ship wreck about a hundred feet from shore to snorkle out to. There are a number of sunken cannons and a ... read more