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Florida Road Trip-- Day 5 Pt 2- Key West

12/29/2011

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_Relaxing in Key West......Sort of

We pulled into Key West after dark and easily found our hotel.  It may have been over a decade since we'd been there, and while much had changed, even more remained the same, especially the geography. 

Everything revolves around Duval Street and US 1 (Truman Ave).

We were on a street that ran parallel to Duval and a block and a half from where US 1 starts, Mile Marker 0.

18 years earlier, I had been in the Keys working on True Lies for around two months. Cindy was there for around a month. I had driven up and down US 1 dozens upon dozens of times, at every time of day. I still keep in touch with several dear friends I met on that movie.



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As we were busily unloading the car, the Banyan Tree started peppering us with what exactly I did not know. 

Because it was evening and the first lobe landed with a squishy splat sound, I assumed we were under attack by some sort of  giant tropical bird roosting above.

Crazed and not wanting to suffer a humiliating blow, I barked at Cindy and Skye commands as to how to best unload the car, "safely"

And thus began our "relaxing" stay in Key West.

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beautiful and impressive by day, by night host to terror and attack from above
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A Facebook Post is Worth a Thousand Words


It may me easier and more accurate to reprint and interpret my fb posts from that evening, than try to recollect and reconstruct the night from my memory alone, several days removed.

Jon Danniells
In Key West, unwinding after 4 full days of road trip adventures
Like · · December 23 at 7:40pm via mobile

After surviving the banyan onslaught and securing parking, we grabbed Skye and strolled down Duval Street. It was still early, although the craziness that is Duval Street was already in full swing.

We showed Skye a few landmarks before returning her to the hotel room, so that Cindy and I could reminisce,

    • Jon Danniells Having a martini at the hotel we stayed at for several weeks while shooting True Lies, around 18 years agoLike · · December 23 at 9:25pm via mobile
        • Jon Danniells Actually, exactly 18 years ago, we flew home on Dec. 23
        • December 23 at 9:41pm · Like
        The hotel was a Holiday Inn when we stayed there, but the bar was pretty much the same. It was a trip to be there with Cindy, so many years later.













Jon Danniells was at Sloppy Joe's Bar Key West
.Like · · Tag Friends · December 23 at 10:50pm via mobile

We were at the less touristy, authentic Sloppy Joe's, the one where Ernest Hemingway actually did go to almost religiously.

Even though we'd been up early and several days into a pretty exhausting vacation, the memories and excitement of Key West buoyed  us on for a few more hours, but like in Vegas, "what happens in Key West, stays in Key West".

So I'll leave it with that tease, your imaginations will doubtless be much more colorful than what I might add.

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    Jon Danniells is an adventurer and traveler, a teacher and student, a husband and a father, a cook and a farmer, a "week-end warrior" (very amateur athlete) and has not earned any money on these labors of love.When I googled myself what showed up first was my IMDB listing, which is basically a resume for my 20 and then some year career in film, for which  I fortunately do get paid.

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