February 11, 2012 Dateline: Key West, FL USA
The streets of Key West are full of interesting sights. Since I have not traveled in a few weeks there is not much to write about but here are some pictures Rich took of Key West.
Since I have been here there has not been a pretty sunset only thick cloud cover. The other night Rich was able to capture this sunset, the nicest one so far.
The US Coast Guard has a square rigger ship, the Eagle, is used to train future officers at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT. It was built in 1936 at the Biohm + Voss shipyard in Germany and was commissioned the Hoss Wessel. At the end of WW II the ship by the US was taken as war repatriations and renamed the Eagle. In April 2012 it will sail to New Orleans where it will participate in the War of 1812 Bicentennial celebration and then go to New York for the July 4th celebration. 
This Willys Jeepster was seen on the streets of Key West. Jeepsters were built by the Willys-Overland Motors from 1948-1950 so this car is over 60 years old.
In the last blog posting there was a picture of an old truck covered with stickers and Rich wondered what it was and what was behind it. It turns out that the truck forms one wall of the B. O. Fish Wagon, a small restaurant. Here is another picture taken form a different angle showing the truck and two sides of the restaurant.
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