"A 'Choose Your Own Adventure' for The Florida Keys." The Key West Bucket List is a concise list of 100 integral activities that will immerse the user into the heart and soul of the people and culture of Key West. Step beyond your typical guidebook and transform your time in The Florida Keys into an adventure filled with purpose, meaning and accomplishments you can check off along the way. This Bucket List Guide is concise and to the point, so you can spend less time reading about what to do and more time doing it. How many can you do?
Millions visit The Florida Keys each year but only a handful experience The Florida Keys. Island Life changes all of that with a bucket list guaranteed to bring you unique experiences in amazing places and meeting a lot of island characters along the way. More than 100 primers of things to do in Key West and The Florida Keys will get your adventures started. Each is accompanied by an inspirational quote. A personal check list is included to track your progress on what is sure to be an adventure of a life time.
Make your vacation a bucket list vacation with 100 offbeat adventures from Key Largo to Key West. Each item on the list includes a description, reasons to do it, reasons to skip it, local advice and a box for you to check off your adventure once it is complete. Informative and humorous, The Florida Keys Bucket List gets to the point and makes the ideal guide for your Florida Keys road trip.
Tired of working? Sick of the Rat Race? Feel like leaving it all behind? Your are one step closer just by picking up this book. Quit Your Job And Move To Key West is your complete guide on how to do it by people who have made it happen.
"Ogle captures this island city in all its quirky charm. Her story breezes along in typical Key West fashion--full of gossip and humor, with the jolt of a good cup of Cuban coffee."--Lee Irby, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg Parrotheads, Hemingway aficionados, and sun worshipers view Key West as a tropical paradise, and scores of writers have set tales of mystery and romance on the island. The city's real story--told by Maureen Ogle in this lively and engaging illustrated account--is as fabulous as fiction. In the early 1800s, the city's pioneer founders battled Indians, pirates, and deadly disease and created wealth beyond their imaginations. In the two centuries since, Key West has nurtured tragedy and triumph and has stood at the crossroads of American history. When Florida joined the Confederacy in 1861, Union troops seized control of strategically located Key West and city residents spent four years living under martial law. In the early 1890s, Key West Cubans helped Jose Marti launch the revolution that eventually ended Spain's control of their homeland. A few years later, the battleship Maine steamed out of Key West harbor on its last, tragic voyage. At the turn of the century, Henry Flagler astounded the entire country by building a technological marvel, an overseas railroad from mainland Florida to Key West, more than 100 miles long. In the 1920s and 1930s, painters, rumrunners, and writers (including Ernest Hemingway and Robert Frost) discovered Key West. During World War II, the federal government and the military war machine permanently altered the island's landscape. In the second half of the 20th century, bohemians, hippies, gays, and jet-setters began writing a new chapter in Key West's social history. All of these personalities and events are wrapped in Ogle's unique and candid history of the island, an account that will fascinate past and present citizens of the Conch Republic, history buffs who like a well-told tale, and the millions of tourists from all over the world who love this colorful island city. Maureen Ogle is retired from the University of South Alabama.
Take your Disney vacation to the next level! Tired of sifting through mountains of guidebooks and websites trying to plan the perfect Disney vacation? Stop planning and start playing. The Disney Bucket List cuts out the fluff and gets to the point with 100 ways to experience the real magic of Magic Kingdom. No nonsense, just awesome, quirky, fun and different adventures that will make your time at the Magic Kingdom unforgettable. The list in this book is concise and interactive, so you can pick an adventure and go. Each adventure is accompanied by a hint, tip, secret or fun fact to get you started. Once you complete an item, there is a box for you to check off your accomplishments. Some are easy to complete; some are almost impossible. You set the pace and chose the next adventure. Each of them will give you a taste of the magic. Take a look inside. How many can you do?
True stories of writers and pirates, painters and potheads, guitar pickers and drug merchants in Key West in the 1970s. For Hemingway and Fitzgerald, there was Paris in the twenties. For others, later, there was Greenwich Village, Big Sur, and Woodstock. But for an even later generation—one defined by the likes of Jimmy Buffett, Tom McGuane, and Hunter S. Thompson—there was another moveable feast: Key West, Florida. The small town on the two-by-four-mile island has long been an artistic haven, a wild refuge for people of all persuasions, and the inspirational home for a league of great American writers. Some of the artists went there to be literary he-men. Some went to re-create themselves. Others just went to disappear—and succeeded. No matter what inspired the trip, Key West in the seventies was the right place at the right time, where and when an astonishing collection of artists wove a web of creative inspiration. Mile Marker Zero tells the story of how these writers and artists found their identities in Key West and maintained their friendships over the decades, despite oceans of booze and boatloads of pot, through serial marriages and sexual escapades, in that dangerous paradise. Unlike the “Lost Generation” of Paris in the twenties, we have a generation that invented, reinvented, and found itself at the unending cocktail party at the end—and the beginning—of America’s highway.
Welcome to Key West, now don't get voted off the island! Learn the methods to our madness. Mandy Miles' "Key West Dos and Don'ts" offers a quick and hilarious crash course on local life in a tourist town. Longtime Key West author and newspaper columnist Mandy Miles offers tropical tips and island etiquette on everything from parking and partying; to scooter horns and Hemingway. "In my nearly 20 years here, no one has ever asked me, 'Where do the tourists go?' But they all want to know how the locals live," said Miles. So here it is: 100 ways to conquer Key West and look like you live here - without getting voted off the island. Key West: Dont just visit; live it.
Two incredible books in one. Haunted Key West tells tales from ten of Key Wests favorite hauntings including the ghost of Ernest Hemingway, the lady in blue and the ghost of US. Strange Key West takes you beyond the supernatural with amazing stories about voodoo curses, bizarre cemeteries and a grotto that protects the island from hurricanes.
Key West is a tropical island at the end of the Florida Keys. Quiet, quaint and completely bizarre. The authors of True Secrets of Key West Revealed! went to great lengths to research the hidden truths about this island paradise. In a lively question and answer format you will learn what restaurant has a graveyard in it, what has protected Key West from hurricanes since 1918 and about the crazy count who lived and slept with his dead "wife's" body...for seven years! Indexed for easy reference. You won't find a funnier or more accurate place for information about the odder side of Key West.
