We do a quick tour about Key West before we head home. Key West is known as the southernmost city in the Continental United States. A little interesting fact: In 1860 wrecking (salvaging valuables from shipwrecks) made Key West the largest and richest city in Florida and the wealthiest town per capita in the U.S.
We pass by the Southernmost Hotel.
I am here at the southernmost point of Continental U.S.!
Here in Key West is the beginning of US Route 1. It is a major north–south U.S. Highway that runs the length of the East Coast of the United States and runs 2,377 miles (3,825 km) from Fort Kent, Maine at the Canadian border all the way south to Key West, Florida. If I drive along this road I will go all the way up to Canada, though it will take a long, long time.
We cross the street, and what do we have? The end of US 1, ha ha.
We also come by the house of Earnest Hemingway, a very famous author who wrote Old Man and the Sea. He wrote several of his novels here, including For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
