{"id":3032,"date":"2009-11-14T01:59:42","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T05:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=3032"},"modified":"2009-11-14T02:10:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T06:10:37","slug":"the-keys-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=3032","title":{"rendered":"The Keys – pt 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Keys1-11\"<\/p>\n

The next morning, we hit the road with the goal of Key West.\u00a0 Apparently there are some 42 bridges that connect the Keys, and we were going to drive over all of them.<\/p>\n

\"Keys1-12\"<\/p>\n

Here we’re starting over the 7-mile bridge.<\/p>\n

\"Keys1-14\"<\/p>\n

We took a detour to visit one of the many small beaches.\u00a0 This one was at Duck Key.<\/p>\n

\"Keys1-15\"<\/p>\n

We got out of the car to look around, check out the water, and admire the views.<\/p>\n

\"Keys1-16\"<\/p>\n

\"Keys1-17\"<\/p>\n

\"Keys1-18\"<\/p>\n

Also on the beach was this gentleman weaving baskets with palms.\u00a0 I went over and asked if I could take his picture.<\/p>\n

\"Keysman\"<\/p>\n

I sure could!\u00a0 He and I chatted for a bit.\u00a0 I’m so bummed that I can’t remember his name.\u00a0 He had so many great stories — everything from various hurricanes to his daughter marrying someone from Alaska.\u00a0 Talk about opposing geographical locations!<\/p>\n

\"Keys1-20\"<\/p>\n

I got such a kick out of him and the items he was making.\u00a0 He told me they get sold at craft fairs.\u00a0 I ended up buying a couple bowls and hanging birds, figuring I’d give a set of items to my mom (which I did, and which she was very happy with).\u00a0 He also made me a gift — a flying duck, in honor of it being on Duck Key.<\/p>\n

\"Keys1-21\"<\/p>\n

Rich and I then hit the road and continued our drive.<\/p>\n

\"Keys1-22\"<\/p>\n

We kept going and going until we finally made it to Key West and to the southern-most point of the continental U.S., as marked by the buoy saying so.\u00a0 The guide book says that on a clear night, you can see the lights of Havana in the horizon.\u00a0 It’s such a popular photo destination that there is a line of people waiting to be photographed by it.\u00a0 There seemed to be a photo etiquette going on.\u00a0 A person would pass their camera to the person behind them in line.\u00a0 That person would then take a picture or two, return the camera, and then pass his\/her camera to the person behind them in line.\u00a0 It seemed to work and keep the line moving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The next morning, we hit the road with the goal of Key West.\u00a0 Apparently there are some 42 bridges that connect the Keys, and we were going to drive over all of them. Here we’re starting over the 7-mile bridge. We took a detour to visit one of the many small beaches.\u00a0 This one was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3032"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3053,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions\/3053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}