Traveling on U.S. 1 and desperately trying to spot mile markers, which seem to have shrunk over time, the Brawny Sherpa and I are in no particular hurry to land on Key West. If we see a curiosity, we’ll stop for the curiosity. We are barely out of our hotel parking lot before we come…
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Chug-Chugging on the African Queen in Key Largo
On the second leg of our Florida Keys fling, the Brawny Sherpa and I head from Key Biscayne over to Key Largo, where we stay in a one-bedroom duplex at the oddly named Key West Inn at Key Largo where we inevitably wonder whether there is a Key Largo Inn at Key West. Our plans…
Biscayne, Largo, West
The Brawny Sherpa and I head to the Florida Keys while everyone else is obsessed with the holidays, or already hungover from them, or still regretting the government shutdown and embracing the frustration of Obamacare websites and this truly miserable economy. It seems the perfect time to flee, so we escape to a place guaranteed…
The Key West Wife
Visiting the Hemingway house in Key West, FL, the Bashful Adventurer finds his Key West wife.
Tracking the Beatles in Hamburg
I didn’t go to Hamburg because of any love of the Beatles, but I’m happy to have rediscovered them there. Partial to the Rolling Stones, I don’t consider myself a huge Beatles fan. Sure, I had Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band on vinyl in the ’70s; had a favorite Beatle (George in my teen…
Tis the Season for Reflection
Another year, not enough travel! I’d hit the road all the time if my checkbook would let me. But I am grateful for all of the places I have been so far and to have goals about where I want to go in the future. For the present, I am grateful to be able to…
Sunshine Coffee Books Seattle
Thinking of a place as a city of environmentalists certainly isn’t a bad thing. I was reminded of my own first visit to Seattle as I was reading Allison Winn Scotch’s The Theory of Opposites, a thoroughly entertaining and amusing read about a too-timid New York woman who might just finally make a bold decision—but…
Kindle Spirit
I’ve finally bonded with my Amazon Kindle even though I’ve had it for a few years and it’s been getting dusty in my antique desk. I’m a book lover, a book hauler on vacations (three to five works weigh down my suitcase on any given adventure), I pretty much lust for books all the time….
Are Witch Hunts Good for Tourism?
The Bashful Adventurer visits destinations historically associated with witches and witch hunts. Have they been good for business?
Bonus History in Witch City
Dispatch from Witch City: It turns out, there are more than witches in Salem, MA.