Out fifth day on our on going experience!
Heard the door shut and looked at the clock. It was 7:40 or so. Rolled over and slept till 8:30. Got up and the guys were back from breakfast complaining about the cold breakfast they had. It seems everything is cold and you have to nuke it to make it editable. I stated that I was disappointing in that Best Western isn't usually so bad, that is why I choose to stay with them instead of Choice Hotel system.
Went downstairs and sure enough the sausage gravy was cold, the biscuits were cold, the hard boiled eggs were cold and the waffles were wrapped and in a refrigerator. Now being a cook myself it was not hard to put a plate of biscuit and sausage gravy together and heat it in the microwave. I did and it was tasty. But I am sure disappointed that the breakfast was so poor. I will most assuredly enter comments about this on the survey I get every time I stay at a Best Western property.
I wanted to find out about renting bicycles and ventured out on my own since I had seen a rental place on my way back to the hotel last night. I found it and get the rates.
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| Typical Key West house |
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| Everybody has a stand or other businness. |
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| Neighborhood in Key West |
I walked up to towards the ocean beach and past by a booth for the City View Trolley Tours. Seems that you can purchase a ticket and ride around on the guided tour that covers the interesting parts of Key West for $21 and it is good for two days. I thought that was something I wanted to do. I would tell the guys about that. I walked out to the ocean beach. The beach is about 30 yards long because they do not have any waves to renew the beach. The city trucks in all the sand on Key West beaches. There are no waves due to the shallowness of the water. There is a coral reef that protects Key West so no waves reach it except in a hurricane.
Back to the hotel and we decide to check out the bicycles and Trolley. My brother and I each purchase a ticket but nephew doesn't since he has place to go clothes shopping. Something about a hole in his shorts. We visited the store front for the Butterfly Conservancy. This is one interesting place. Brother and nephew decide to go into the Conservancy to view the butterflys. I need to go back to the hotel for my morning meds, I forgot to take them this morning. When I returned to the Butterfly Conservancy I was standing around waiting on the guys to come out. They did not so I asked the lady at admissions if they were still in there. She said I could go in to find them and gave me a free pass.
Once inside I new what was taking so long for them to come out. The butterflies were beautiful. See the pictures below.
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| Front of building |
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| Stuff on the wall for sale |
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| Brother taking pictures inside Conservatory |
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| Flamingos eating |
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| Butterfly food |
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| Look close for big butterfly/moth |
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| One of my new friends |
I was wearing an orange t-shirt and butter flies kept landing on me and just sitting there. Care takers had to rescue me from the butterflies before leaving.
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| More butterfly food |
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| Some kind of bird who lives inside with the butterflys |
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| Butterflys eating |
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| Just some flora |
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| Self explainitory |
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| Bird who lives with butterflys |
Now after viewing the above still shots you might be tired of butterflies but here are two videos I shot inside.
Seems there is some difficulty with my original video.
Try this URL
Took Trolley around to Pepe' for lunch. This is the oldest continuing restaurant/bar to operate on the island.
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| Me in front of oldest continuing restaurant in Key West |
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| Guys out front of Pepe's |
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| The bar outside |
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| Great meal |
I had a medley oysters, a martini and a spinach salad for lunch.
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| Jimmy Buffets place. The real margaritaville. |
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| US 1 has to end somewhere. It is a block from our hotel. |
There was a parade Sunday evening called the Zombie Parade. You dress up like a Zombie and ride you bicycle, which could/should be decorated too. Ride from one end of Duval street to the other end, about 1.2 miles. This is in the evening around 7:30 pm. The police ride through the route cutting off traffic so the bicyclist have a freeway to themselves keeping them safe from cars but not each other. There were several collisions among the 350 riders.
Here is a video to give you the flavor of the Zombie ride.s
Below are some pictures after the parade.
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| Getting body painted |
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| After body painting |
Having great issues with the video. Will attempt to get it working if possible.
TTFN
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