Heading To The Florida Keys This Weekend!

Have a wonderful time and good luck!

Good luck...hope you find Spanish gold.... RickO

Sweet expedition your headed off to James! Man you're gonna do good...Gotta feeling you gonna find some gold bud. Just leave me some if and when I ever get a chance to get down there.

Bring the bug repellant. Watch out for the Dengue Fever carrying skeeters.

-- Tom

There used to be a railroad that went down there. As if
riding in a car over those LONG bridges isn't a bit unsettling
enough. Enjoy your time there and good luck on the hunts!

See that photo of the iron work? Flagler's trains rode through that like any other suspended railway. When his railroad ended with the Labor Day hurricane of "35", the remaining rail bridges were converted to auto roads. But instead of putting the car road on the same level as the train tracks, they chose instead to build the dang road on top of the iron bridges. In that sunset photo you can still see handrails for pedestrians. The cars rode on top for no good reason I can think of. Must have been scary.

The Lower Keys are not Florida in any traditional sense. We are a different country. More a Caribbean nation than part of the US. There is no place in the US as pretty if you ask me. Key West is as hole compared to he beauty of the outlying islands.

JB, you should have a good time if the cost of living doesn't give you sticker shock. Everything in stores lately has skyrocketed.

Old Town