Wasting Away Again

In Margaritaville. The best present day icon in Key West is not Jimmy Buffet, but the guy playing the Margaritaville song until someone in the bar buys him a shot to stop. A few more good songs are played and then to all the boos and groans “that familiar concoction that helps you hang on” is started again as someone goes running up to the bar. It’s really quite ingenious. Of course that is only till 10:00 am, when the band is too drunk to play and the cruise ships release their doors, flooding the small island with thousands of flower shirts, and fanny packs running to get their first margarita.

Our mission was a little different. We spent our first day in Key West, not under the table because of so many drinks, but because we were looking for an elusive outlet to discretely plug in our three different batteries for recharging, without having our server kick us out of the restaurant (Oh, this is great water you are serving here, I think I will splurge and get another.) Of course a battery charge was not all we needed. We still had to find a free internet connection to finish tying up all the loose ends we have created over the last four months.

This was how we came to find our favorite little spot in Key West, a tree. OK, so a little strange, but well worth it when we found the top limbs were quiet, well shaded, and had the best WiFi around. Besides, it was kind of fun to see the look on peoples faces when they happened to glance up and see two people casually sitting 30 feet up working on a computer. And while this might have been our highlight, we did enjoy walking the bar streets, seeing some great street performers, a sailing regatta, and people watching (there are some interesting people to watch here!). If we were here to pound back the drinks this would have been a whole different destination to us, but really we’re just excited to get sailing again, as we are taking off later today. So we’ll be “off the grid” for a bit until we eventually get to Mexico where hopefully it will not be a harrowing tale of gale force winds and crazy waves we have to tell, but one of fair winds and calm seas that saw us to our destinations. Until then, we are signing off; from our last port of call in the US for a long while, bonvoyage.