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Florida / Mexico
December 2002
Key West, FL
Tuesday Morning 17 December 2002
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 | Views of the (docked) ship from Key West
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 | Conch (pronouned konk) train
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| Mallory Square
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 | Clinton Street Market, first building built on Key West by the Army Corps of Engineers
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| The southernmost point of the Continental United States
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 | Views along the southern coast of Key West
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 | Key West AIDS memorial
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| Fausto's, the oldest food market on Key West
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| Statue of Jose Marti
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| A Christmas Palm. Small berries only turn red in mid-December
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 | I don't remember his name, but he built two identical houses for his two daughters so they wouldn't argue over which one he loved more.
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 | Flagler Station, the endpoint of the first railroad that connected Key West to mainland Florida; the foundations of the railroad are now the automobile bridge
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| Most of the trees on Key West were imported from the mainland during the 40s, when the government was turning the island into a tourist spot
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 | Sloppy Joe's, favorite hangout of Ernest Hemingway
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| We think this was City Hall. Most of the island's early economy (and wealth) was based on salvaging shipwrecks. These gates were headed to a church in New England.
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| In the early days, houses that weren't painted weren't taxed. The law was changed, there was a run on paint...
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 | ...and many houses were painted with white and green left over from the navy base.
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