(*Note: This log was drafted on the evening of July 28, 2017, but I was only able to polish it and publish it now due to being busy with travel and returning to work.) The inevitable always becomes inevitable. The trouble with traveling through time in the traditional, linear fashion we’re accustomed to is that … Continue reading Into the Sunset
Category: Key West
Into the Light
(*Note: This travel log drafted on July 27, 2017) Lighthouses don’t move…well, not normally. Usually it takes something like a hurricane, demolition, or a space-time continuum inversion to make a lighthouse get up and move. I’m happy to say the Key West Lighthouse is right where I left it the last time I saw it … Continue reading Into the Light
Fort Jefferson
(*Note—the outline for this travel log was drafted on July 26; it just took me a bit to finish it.) I normally don’t get up at 6:00 a.m. on vacation, but I had to be checked in at that ferry terminal by 7:00 so I could board the Yankee Freedom III for a three hour … Continue reading Fort Jefferson
Key West Ghosts
Today was 91° in Key West, one of the hottest days of summer so far (that’s ambient air temperature; the heat index was way higher). So, of course, today is the day I rent a bicycle for the week and decide to pedal over three miles across 90% of the island’s length. I decided to … Continue reading Key West Ghosts
Key West, Day 3
It’s July 24, 2017. I’m on my third day of my retirement vacation down in Key West. I wanted to write during the transit and all, but it was a whirlwind flight down from Norfolk, and I’ve not been letting the grass grow under my feet as it were. The story of my connection to … Continue reading Key West, Day 3
