Wow so beautiful right I captured that
footage while I was flying over the Florida Keys on my way to Grand Cayman
and I was literally inspired to travel there after that and so I did but you
know what like the title says it wasn't really what I expected let me give you
the set up so I'm super excited I'm going to the Florida Keys for my first
time and I'm going with my normal lineup you know of me myself and I and I'm
gonna be going for a long weekend I'm super excited I'll be driving down from
Fort Lauderdale actually and I don't know if you know this but there's only
one road that goes through the entire Florida Keys and it's actually really
long and so I was trying to do my research on what's the closest coolest
key and based off of everything I found Key Largo was it and let me tell you
what I really wanted to do based off of that research I really wanted to lie on
the beach and just chillax I mean it's the Florida Keys right second I really
wanted to stay somewhere central so I could just easily walk around third I
really wanted to check out this statue that I read about at John Pennekamp Park
where they have a submerged statute you can either snorkel or scuba dive there
and fourth and fifth I really wanted to catch the sunrise and sunset at the
beach can you guess how many of these I actually did? 0! I did 0 of those
things well actually it did one over them but I
had to sneak in to do it and if you can keep a secret I'll show you later but
you know what it's travel and as with life you just kind of roll with the
punches like look at me right now I just came from sunny San Diego and now I'm in
17 degree weather it's freezing this is a one-two punch right here but that's
not what we're talking about come travel with me in the Keys
I didn't get what I wanted but sometimes the unexpected is even better
so that wasn't exactly the blue and green water that I saw from my flight so
that was the first unexpected thing about Key Largo
it was the beaches I'm surprised you couldn't easily access the beach I had
to drive to John Pennekamp Park where you pay $8 for vehicle to get in and the
beach didn't look the way I expected to the other thing is they have these
things called noseeums if you don't know what a noseeum is it's
this word right here and it's basically a species of flies there's over 5,000
species of them and they will bite the crap out of you this was my first
experience in Key Largo and I did something else instead let's take a look
I already know what you're thinking yoga instead of the beach but you know it's
the best thing about traveling alone you can do whatever you want
unexpected thing number two in Key Largo there's no walking around there's no
sidewalks in Key Largo you really do need to drive from place to place and
yes as of 2017 they do have uber and lifts but that wasn't the point I didn't want
to drive so I'm really glad because I had booked an Aibnb that had a view so
that worked out for me
the next unexpected thing about Key Largo is that you can't just jump into
the water with your snorkel on you need to go to the reef which is a boat ride
away and on the day that I was there the swells were huge and the visibility was
almost zero so your choices are you can go with a private boat or you can go
with the public tour out of John Pennekamp Park but you need to look at
the conditions part of going out there what did I get up to instead since I was
already in John Pennekamp Park I stayed there because I loved kayaking and there
are amazing places you can only get to by kayak because it's either too shallow
for a boat or there are just too many jellyfish if you swam away
that there isn't abuse to go watch the sunrise that and so what did I do
I went and talked to a local and I asked her where would you go to watch the
sunrise and she gave me a little secret about a neighborhood to go park at to
catch that sunrise
I really enjoyed that sunrise but you know what it wasn't on the beach I
really wanted to watch the sunrise or the sunset at the beach and I know I
told you I would let you in on a secret and so how did I watch the sunset at the
beach Key Largo doesn't have beaches that are easily accessible we know that
by now but you know who has beaches and Key Largo the resorts and the Hilton
that's down there is supposed to be beautiful so I rolled up to the Hilton
and as the security guard stopped me I was just like hey nice to see you again
and he was like yeah and I went in and they have a beautiful bar live music and
a great sunset
Key Largo in the books I had a good time this trip was not what I expected but I
made the most of it and I rolled with the punches I'd love to hear in the
comments below what was your favorite part or what would you have done instead
and I'll see you in the next adventure for now GET UP GET OUT GO TRAVEL!