Originally posted July 9, 2020. When I am not in France, I buy my French and Willamette Valley Pinot Noir and Rhone Valley Syrah from “The Wine Guy,” Mark Gambuzza. Mark is based on the tiny, semi-tropical island of Key West, just 90 miles from Cuba. Debbie and I have lived in Old Town Key […]
Survival Guy Greetings from Key West at Sunset
Your Survival Guy is just getting by down here in beautiful Key West. This sunset pic above is from high above Louie’s Backyard last night where Becky and I had a chance to reflect on life for a while. Because it’s times like these you need to take some time for YOU. You need to take […]
Greetings from Key West
Greetings From Key West, Louie’s Backyard. #1 Locals’ Old Town Favorite
Greetings from Key West
Our favorite oyster bar and lunch spot in old town Key West is the Thirsty Mermaid. The #1 oyster supplier in America, Skip Batten, is their oyster supplier. Today, Debbie and I had—flown directly from Skip—Skip’s Petit and Aunt Dotty oysters! Both are harvested in Duxbury, Massachusetts, and are outstanding. Enjoy, Dick & Debbie
Key West’s Committee for Safer, Cleaner Ships Leads America
Vote YES. The bane of big cruise ships is that they are the grand polluters of safe, clean harbors. They also are the master spreaders of CORONA. No one is doing more to send these befouling monsters of the seas out of town for good than my friend Arlo Haskell and his crusaders at Committee […]
Key West, a Small Business Development Innovator
In the Key West Citizen, Pru Sowers explains the fast-growing Key West Mom & Pop’s group, writing: Key West Mom & Pop’s is the brainchild of Paul Menta, owner of the Hemingway Rum Company, maker of Papa’s Pilar Rum, and Mark Gambuzza, ( disclaimer : Mark is a good friend of mine) owner-operator of Uva […]
America’s New National Past Times
Like thousands of my readers, I have quit watching professional sports: NFL, NBA, and MLB. Also gone from “the daily rotation,” are cable TV, the NYT (Boston Globe, Washington Post included), Google search, and now Amazon! That’s right, no more Amazon for me, and undoubtedly for many of you. After all, what sort of constitutionally-strong […]
Coming: Key West & Bar Harbor Cruise Ships Crackdown
Despite cruise lines offering very restrictive plans of virus mitigation to ports of call, coastal towns are making the decision to ban cruise ships from docking in their harbors in 2020. Bar Harbor, Maine is the latest town to say no to big cruise ships. Cruise Industry News reports: Bar Harbor, Maine, has decided it […]
Welcome back to the Florida Keys
Timothy O’Hara writes in the Keys News: Monroe County plans to reopen to visitors June 1 by suspending the checkpoints on U.S. 1 and State Road 905 and allowing lodging establishments to take guests at 50 percent occupancy, Monroe County government officials said Sunday. Monroe County lodging establishments, like hotels, campgrounds, vacation rentals, and other […]
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