MHV 50 - Bucky Meets Key West

BUCKY MEETS KEY WEST
- - March 1998

Highlights: My first few days experiencing Key West, narrating video through the eyes of a first time tourist.

00:22 After a fun adventure in Orlando with the kids and ex-wife Reggie, leaving Jacksonville and heading south as far as the road will go, through Daytona and Kennedy Space Center, through Palm Beach and Miami while the sun is setting, but I did not stop all the way down to the road met the sea
02:41 Day one, enthralled and in awe the first time seeing everything on the very first day: Walking and driving around to see things, the Southernmost Point, banyan trees, Higgs Beach, West Martello, and White Street Pier (I live 1/4 mile away from there now), first cruise ships I had ever seen, my first walk down Duval Street from day to night from one end to the other and back again (first time seeing so many things that are commonplace to me now), thinking about my kids and hoping they’d be coming down to see everything too (Could never have imagined Destiny would someday live here as an adult.)
14:23 Day two: Rented a bike and rode around town seeing more things for the very first time, Key West Lighthouse and the home of Ernest Hemingway (Everything I see now brings back hundreds of memories of things that would later happen.)
21:53 Youth Hostel I stayed in my first few days, Jamaican Bobsled Racers on Mt. Sloppy’s
25:40 My very first home at 2424 Seidenberg Avenue rented from a witch and her two cats
28:33 My very first job, bartending at the Key West Hilton and Marina out on Sunset Key