Florida Keys Trip for 50th Bday (Days 1-3)
I had been planning for a couple years for a grand Paris and Amsterdam extravaganza for my Fabulous 50 th birthday but thanks to COVID, I decided to play it safe and stay stateside. This led me to recently checking off an item on my travel bucket list - The Florida Keys. The travel party of Divas included the usual suspects: my daughter (26), my best friend (age not disclosed, but she is OLDER than me, shhhh) and myself. The BFF was flying down from Jersey direct into Key West a day after we got there, and el kiddo and I originally planned to take the Key West Express Ferry out of Ft Myers. The drive from our house to Key West is just over 7 hours. The drive to the ferry is 2.5 hours and the ferry ride is about 3.5 hours. The ferry boarding starts at 7am, and with a 2.5-hour drive from our home to the ferry, we were going to stay over the night before. The return ferry did not leave Key West until 6pm so we would not get back to our home until after midnight. But then I dug ...