7 December 2018
It’s altogether fitting that today is the 77th anniversary of Pearl Harbor and I just visited the CGC Ingham, a WWII ship much decorated for that war and for Vietnam. It has certainly been a date that even now lives in infamy.
Last night’s dinner at Azur was excellent. I started with a pear salad with frisée lettuce. Why do they serve frisée? It’s too difficult to get into your mouth without first cutting it to bits. The salad was delicious but a workout.
My entrée was yellow tail snapper with shrimp in a lemon butter sauce. Yummy! I had forgotten that Tom and Kurt had introduced me to this restaurant a couple of years ago. It’s associated with the Eden House Hotel. Eden House claims to be the original hotel in Key West. It was constructed in 1924. I remember it from the movie Criss Cross starring Goldie Hawn.
It wasn’t a busy night at the restaurant and the service was excellent, the food was excellent and the atmosphere was excellent.
I made an early night of it after dinner and was asleep by 9:30 pm. I got up around 6:30 am and had coffee and a bagel and packed. I was on the road by 8:20 am and arrived home just a little after noon. Traffic was pretty light for most of the trip except for the section from Key Largo to Homestead where there was a slowdown but no real reason for it. In addition, continuous construction on the turnpike is always problematic but even that moved pretty well.
Key West is always fun but I think I need more than 3 nights to get acclimated to the laid back pace of the town. I remember I used to go for a week in the summer and after about day 4 I started to unwind. The great thing about Old Town is the ability to walk everywhere and get some exercise and see the sights.
I can only hope it’s not another two years before I get back to that island paradise.
