Monthly Archives: May 2009
Cheeseburger in Paradise…actually it was a Caribbean Club Chicken Sandwich…
We pulled out of the RV park in Homestead, FL and headed down to Key West about 11:30 am.
This is later than we had thought to leave, but we were waiting for the mail to come at the park office.
Our daughter Brandi had send us a Priority Mail letter on Monday containing a replacement debit card. One of the two we normally use has lost its magnetic strip and will no longer scan.
It should have been here Wednesday or Thursday, at the latest. But it still hasn’t shown up. Since we’ll be passing back thru Homestead on our way back north, the RV park is going to hold it for us, assuming it ever shows up.
We’ll see.
We arrived here in Key West about 2:3opm and have a waterfront site here at Geiger Key RV Park. We’re about 10 miles from Key West proper.
Here’s a couple of pics of what we see from our site. Nice!!!
Site View 1
Site View 2
We actually about 5 ft from the water’s edge.
After we had gotten things set up, we headed into Key West to grab a late lunch/early supper.
We decided to try Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville Cafe in downtown Key West. We’d eaten at his sister’s place in Gulf Shores, AL called Lulu’s at Homeport, so we had to try Jimmy’s too.
We were surprised how small the place really is.
Margaritaville Sign
Jan had the Caribbean Club Chicken Sandwich and I had the Caribbean Chicken Salad. We both really liked what we had.
Hopefully we’ll have a chance to go back.
Margaritaville
Tomorrow some friends of ours are coming down with their RV from West Palm Beach and will join us for a few days. We really look forward to seeing Charlee again. It’s been a long time.
More tomorrow…
Unrequited Love and Turkey & Dressing…
As I said before, we’re parked at an RV community in Homestead (actually Florida City) FL called Goldcoaster RV Resort with over 400 sites, with most of them having mobile homes on the lots, but they have a lot of sites for rent.
Parked at Goldcoaster RV
GoldCoaster
One of the plants we’ve seen around here is a tree with large bunches of bright orange red flowers.
Royal Poinciana
Royal Poinciana Flowers
We were first told it was a Royal Poinsettia tree, but finally found it was a Royal Poinciana tree. These trees really stand out.
After lunch at Cracker Barrel (Thursday is Turkey & Dressing Day which is a favorite of Jan’s) we headed a few miles north to the Coral Castle.
The history behind the Coral Castle is one of unrequited love. Edward Leedskalnin was jilted by his 16 year old fiance the day before his wedding in Latvia.
Immigrating to American in the early 1920’s, he supposedly built the Coral Castle (then called Rock Gate) in tribute to his “Sweet Sixteen”.
The place was featured on ‘In Search of…” and “That’s Incredible” and there is some controversy how this one man, working only at night, was able to move stones as heavy as 30 tons by himself.
If you want more info, click here for a pretty good article.
Here are some pics.
Coral Castle 1
My Sweet Sixteen (Actually she was 19 when we met)
Coral Castle 3
Coral Castle 4
Coral Castle 5
Coral Castle 6
Tomorrow we head down to the Florida Keys for 5 days.
Stay tuned…
