When traveling down US-1 overseas highway, you come to a little island about twenty miles or so from Key West. This is the Big Pine Key, and on it lives a little species called the Key Deer. The Key Deer is highly endangered, and there are signs everywhere that say, "Careful Driving: You are now in an endangered species protected zone", or ( Read more... )

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Scrap the sleeping bag; if I'm to be rousted, it is far better to be able to move quickly.
Plus its Key West; the hoodie and thermal will be more than enough for warmth.

The book I'm bringing is A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving. A friend and long-lost travel companion bought this for me years ago, and I've yet to pick it up. At 600+ pages ( Read more... )

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things - air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”

- Cesare Pavese

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