Tony and Petra's Travels: Naked in Flo-rida

After our heavy times in New Orleans, we got ready for the final phase of our Great American Road trip, making our way to the sunshine state of Florida. After a night’s stop at (another!) motel in Tallahassee we broke our driving record and drove a 900km stretch in one day ending up in Homestead, FL. A random stop, but convenient enough to head down to Key West the next morning. Americans have been smart enough and built a 170km BRIDGE highway connecting all the islands that make up the Florida Keys at the very Southern tip of Florida.

Happy Holidays y'all!

Arriving in Key West and doing some research on accommodation on the island, turned out that the very cheapest option for 2 people was $100 for a shitty hostel dorm room! So prepare yourself for the fact that this place is definitely not budget-traveller friendly. So having no place to spend the night, we decided to go with the flow and hope things would sort themselves out, hence we hit the beach. HELL YEAH, this was what we’d been waiting for since we left Europe. Sunshine and heat. Funny enough, without us having to sleep in the car (which btw is illegal everywhere in Key West), we ended up meeting up with a hilarious Serbian friend through Couchsurfing who eventually let us sleep in his place! Thank you Mircco.

That night we also hit some bars in the infamous Duval Street, which is pretty much a combination of Sunny Beach in Bulgaria and Ibiza. Long story short, we were taken into a bar called Garden of Eden. Literally, EDEN. Basically the third floor of this bar was clothing optional and unfortunately the people who opted for no clothes were not the people you would want to see with no clothes. It’s hard to enjoy a beer when there are old men and women dangling their bits everywhere. No kidding. We wish we could’ve captured this grossness on film, but unfortunately this bar, for some funny reason, did not allow any pictures being taken.

The next, before leaving Key West we enjoyed an awesome day on a private island just off the South coast of Key West. This place was a true paradise, and we finally got our tans on!

Soon-to-be lobsters

Just chillin on a private island

Tony loving winter time

After leaving Key West, we spend a night in a motel (no surprise there), so we could have easy access to Everglades, the famous national park inhabited with alligators. So today we spent the afternoon at one of Everglade’s many safari parks, and it was totally worth it! Only cost $23/person and we got to go on an airboat ride, and got to see alligators (and their babies), and even got to hold one!

Now we are in Miami, which we will post on later!