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Our Balcony View - Westin Key West Resort & Marina

While I skipped posting for Vegas and Chicago,  I'm back at it for our trip to Southern Florida.  Although I'm sure I'll do at least a post for each of the missing trips.  Julie bought me a travel diary although typing seems to be more of my forte.

In an unprecedented move we arrived in Fort Lauderdale without much of a plan other than having a South Beach hotel booked for the middle of our trip.  While waiting for the luggage to round the carousel I rang up SPG and booked us in at the Westin Key West.  Reviews seemed decent and it's hard to not abuse the comp. upgrades for our SPG membership. We grabbed a rental and off we were, South; actually South, West, North, West, South; and back on track.  A relatively interesting drive that reminded me of the highways in Mexico with towns scattered every few miles, oh and a few more bridges -- about 45 of them including a 7 mile bridge.

Arriving in Key West over a long weekend is like taking a stroll down Bourbon Street -- you try to avoid running into drunk people falling out onto the street.  Once checked it started to pour, which seems to happen every few hours for 30 mins, to make sure the air remains constantly chewable.  Julie grabbed a nap and I tried out figure out what to do while here.  After a midnight dinner and a walk past all the spring break-esque bars we retired for the evening.

This morning I hit the wet streets of KW, high tide flood warning for low-lying streets, and clocked an 7.5k jog around part of the island.  At 8AM it felt like 34C, hot. A cruise ship has pulled in to port right outside the hotel likely ruining tonight's sunset shot.  Damn tourists.  The hotel is part of a marina and has lots of open spaces and shops not unlike a ski village (you know you're Canadian when you equate the far South to a skiing.)

(The Westin did come through with a ocean-front suite upgrade; although we didn't order the Carnival cruise as part of the view).