Quintessentially Key west…

The day before we arrived in Key West Sharon noticed a small tickle in her throat… we were both hoping that she wasn’t catching something.  We have  been retired and on the road for over ten months and neither of us have been sick, not even a cold!

Yet here we are in paradise and Sharon has a full fledged cold… Sigh!!!

I am doing my best to take care of her and to make sure she is happy in paradise, despite the cold. After all,there are probably worse places to be with a cold. We are also blessed with the fact that we have a house to use while here and that makes it a bit easier as well. At least we are in Key West for a couple of weeks so she still has plenty of time to get better and get out to enjoy this little slice of heaven.

This wouldn’t even be happening were it not for our good friends Jerry and Kathleen who allowed us a stay in their beautiful home in the Keys. After nursing Sharon most of the day she urged me to take our planned bike ride into the town of Key West sans her. Appreciatively, I got on the bike and headed south…

We are about 6.5 miles outside the town but there are bicycle trails extending from way out here into and around.Key West. Should you come here, bring bikes as is a very bicycle friendly town. So it was off to Key West to have a nice bike ride and take in the sights… Seventeen and one half miles later I made it back to the the house.

I was only gone a couple of hours but had a really nice ride all through the town of Key West.  There were two cruise ships in the harbor docked just off of Mallory Square thus the streets around Duvall Street were extremely crowded. Not to be dissuaded I continued on and really enjoyed this ride, that is, until… I started to head back and realized I was riding the last six miles into a a stiff head wind…

By the tine I got back I was winded (pun intended) to say the least but the good news is that there was a cozy house waiting for me with a wonderful pool overlooking a blue water canal in the back yard. When I finally got back to the S&B house I ditched the bike, checked on Sharon (still sickly), got into my swim shorts and headed for the pool… however, I did pause to get a cold adult beverage before getting in…

Sharon was still feeling puny but was able to come outside and wet her feet. I made us some pork tenderloin and vegetable shish kabobs and we settled in for the evening and settled in to watch the national championship for collegiate football.

The game was a bit of a bust as only one team showed up and it was all Roll Tide Roll…