FL Keys - Jan 2008
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January, 2008  Enough of this winter weather!  Rita and I rounded up some discount plane tickets to Fort Lauderdale, rented a car and headed down to the Florida Keys.  There is no place further south in the Continental United States.

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    We flew into Fort            The next morning it was off to Key Largo where we spent the next four days at beautiful
  Lauderdale Thur eve.              Bay Harbor Lodge.  A quiet and secluded tropical setting with its own private beach. 
Too late to drive, so we          If you're looking for somewhere to unwind and de-stress ... this is the perfect location.
spent the night at a Motel
6 in a rough part of town.
My wife was NOT happy
      with my choice!

                 

   From the freezing           Rita kicks back to            Rita introduced me to Key Largo Conch House        Any breakfast scraps?
    Ohio temps to a                enjoy the room.                which quickly became my favorite way to
 refreshing dip in the                                                                    start each day!
    Atlantic Ocean!

             

A trip to the Keys doesn't     Hogsbreath Saloon          Ed people watching                               My beautiful     Tourists
  count without a visit                 web cam                      along Duval St                                          wife!            have no
  to Duval St down in                                                                                                                                        self-
        Key West                                                                                                                                              respect!

                     

Just take two     My wife, the animal                                             And for a moment,     Apparently being      The cranes had no
steps to your              lover                                                           Rita and I were       the "Southernmost"      fear of people
right, baby!                                                                                further south than      is very competitive
Don't worry                                                                               any other people in        in Key West
about those birds!                                                                      the continental U.S.

             

                         Important to support local tourism, so we visited          "Just a little closer,        What make this
                    Everglades Alligator Farm.  The farm has a fenced trail    Ed. I promise I won't        photo so rare is
                        that lets you view Alligators in a natural setting.                     bite!"                    that Rita has a
                       It's amazing how perfectly still they sit and wait                                             deathly fear of snakes.

               

  And what's a trip to an Alligator         Okay ... now that's         "Show's over people.          We've never seen the
        Farm without a show?!?                    just asking for               I'm out of here."           Everglades, so we signed
                                                                 trouble.                                                           up for an airboat ride

           

 120 miles long        And as luck would have it, our airboat got        I know this look!          Ed never misses a
& 50 miles wide,      stuck in the mud.  The only way out was to      It means I'll hear          ridiculous photo
the Everglades        change boats walking through the mud. I        more about this later!        opportunity
  is known as a      considered it a real opportunity to see what
'river of grass'      it would be like to explore on foot. That
                                            was some deep mud!

 

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