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How I Wound Up Locked in a Key West Cemetery at Night
Or, what not to do when visiting the “Conch Republic.”
Key West, Florida has a glow about it. A drunk-around-the-edges, tropical flora rich, 10,000 cruise ship visitors a day kind of glow. It’s both elegant — with lovingly-painted million-dollar gingerbread houses — and delightfully trashy, with bars and music spilling out raucously into the streets.
From drag shows to cover bands of every stripe, Key West is vibrant and full of things to see and do. Since getting locked in a cemetery at night isn’t likely to be at the top of your list, read on to discover how NOT to do that.
Confident roosters and artfully-dressed locals wander around the island, interspersing with sunburned tourists from all over the globe who come to visit the southernmost point in the continental US, and traipse through the haunts of Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, and more.
Key West is small, running four miles long and about two miles wide, but it occupies an outsize force in the soul of Florida and popular imagination alike.
