Life's Next Adventures: Key West

So as a child of an oldies-loving mother, I grew up listening to the best hits from the 60s and 70s. Since the beach boys were popular during that time, my mom loved them as well. One of my FAVORITE all time beach boys song was "Kokomo." I used to always want to travel to the places in the song, they sounded so, well, peaceful and fun! A little sampling of the lyrics follow:

Aruba, Jamaica oooo I wanna take you

Bermuda, Bahama come on pretty mama

Key Largo, Montego baby why don't we go

Jamaica

Off to the Florida Keys

There's a place called Kokomo

That's where you wanna go to get away from it all

Bodies in the sand

Tropical drink melting in your hand

We'll be falling in love

To the rhythm of a steel drum band

Down in Kokomo

So we did not find Kokomo and I definitely googled it and it is in Indiana, so why they talk about it being in the Florida Keys, I do not know! What I do know is as a young child in my mom's minivan, I used to love imagine the type of people that went to exotic places like Jamaica and the Bahamas and the Florida Keys and drank tropical drinks and listened to steel drums. Well guess what? I am now one of those people! I have done all that! I did not fall in love unfortunately as the song suggests; and between me and you, the sand and beach in the keys was not nearly as nice as in other parts of the Caribbean, but the peaceful part---yeah that was there!

Key West, a place, I had only heard my brother talk about. He loved key west--loved the people, loved the location, loved the weather...and I never got it until I was there! It was fairly nice (albeit a little hot) weather and the people are super nice, very LOW-KEY (in KEY west, imagine that!). We enjoyed walking around and being tourists for the day, see the visual tour below....