Sirugo Avenue is hard to find, but it's a block east of White Street, south of Laird Street, if that helps. I was riding around town on my bicycle for a change. I brought the bike to town on my car rack, left the Nissan Maxima at the Police station and made my rounds of a few streets I'd planned to photograph.
This resident was out picking up trash that someone had dumped in defiance of the sign. His t-shirt read "Save the Planet, Ride Old Wood" which it seems is the motto of a longboard manufacturer in Key West...building surfing longboards from salvaged wood. Who knew?
Sirugo is just a block long and it is lined by homes covered with greenery:
All these palms take work to look after, I sympathize as I had three bins of fronds at my own home this week with lots more to come:
It was a breezy afternoon and the palm trees were waving back and forth:
In a different vein I saw a manufactured home, pink in color, high upon stilts. Large areas of New Town (the area east of White Street) was subject to flooding in Hurricane Wilma in 2005 resulting in a great deal of damage. Stilts suddenly started to look good to people who could afford them. A banana plant provides nice color contrast to the startling pink:
This is recycling of a different order, surplus coconuts are easy to find when you have just a few mature trees:
Sirugo Avenue dead ends, but there is a street to turn off onto, called Atlantic Drive, much less lush than Sirugo:
This house is for sale for anyone who wants some greenery and a nice high wall.
Sirugo Avenue is hard to find, but it's a block east of White Street, south of Laird Street, if that helps. I was riding around town on my bicycle for a change. I brought the bike to town on my car rack, left the Nissan Maxima at the Police station and made my rounds of a few streets I'd planned to photograph.
This resident was out picking up trash that someone had dumped in defiance of the sign. His t-shirt read "Save the Planet, Ride Old Wood" which it seems is the motto of a longboard manufacturer in Key West...building surfing longboards from salvaged wood. Who knew?
Sirugo is just a block long and it is lined by homes covered with greenery: 
All these palms take work to look after, I sympathize as I had three bins of fronds at my own home this week with lots more to come:
In a different vein I saw a manufactured home, pink in color, high upon stilts. Large areas of New Town (the area east of White Street) was subject to flooding in Hurricane Wilma in 2005 resulting in a great deal of damage. Stilts suddenly started to look good to people who could afford them. A banana plant provides nice color contrast to the startling pink:
This is recycling of a different order, surplus coconuts are easy to find when you have just a few mature trees:
And it's right next to Indigenous Park which I wrote about here: http://conchscooter.blogspot.com/search?q=Indigenous+park .
A bird sanctuary for a neighbor on street filled with trees and no Historic Architecture Review to deal with. Sounds perfect.
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Dear Sir:
I am delighted you were able to take the time to depict one of Key West's poorer neighborhoods. I was wondering where folks of modest to almost non-existent means lived in Key West, and you have answered that question.
They live in shame behind walls, edged with trees, that were brought in from Tahaiti.
Key West must be paradise. I have always associated palm trees with rich people, and in your town, these stately trees grow out of the garbage cans. Further, items found in Key West trash (i.e. coconuts) sell for $2.50 here in Easy Goshen, Pa.
A trip to the store yesterday, revealed Perdue Oven Stuffer Roasters going for $8.50. Technically, one chicken and a coconut, taken off the hoof on any Key West street, is like finding $10.
Releasing the dogs to the freedom of the yard last night, the thermometer on the clubhouse wall read 22º. "Bullshit," I thought. This morning, the fountain in the herb garden was frozen over, and the grass -- still quite green -- was thickly glazed with frost.
The "easy rider" season is coming to an end here, and you will soon be in your glory, sleeping on the floor in the bathroom, huddled over a space-heater, when temperatures drop to 72º.
Fondest regards,
Jack • reep • Toad
You may have a frozen fountain, but I have turned off the air conditioning.At least for the moment so it is cooler than it was.
Enjoy the change of seasons bullshit.
My name is Sean Olender and you quoted an article of mine and apparently liked it.
I was searching for something else and accidentally came upon your blog. I was an avid cyclist, but I totaled my 2004 Ducati Monster 1000 June 2008. Fortunately I wasn't injured.
Anyway, I'm visiting Miami and the Keys for the first time with my wife and daughter over the week between Christmas and New Year's Day. We're going to stay at a rented condo in South Beach from 12/29 to 01/01 and then in Ft. Lauderdale 01/01 because our flight leaves painfully early on 01/02 (it was a lot cheaper that way).
We'd like to find a condo to rent in the Keys and we're not sure which Key to stay on, where to go etc. You seem to have an unusually deep familiarity with with that area, so I figured I can ask you.
If we're only going to be in the Keys for 12/26 to 12/29 (three nights leaving 12/29). We will have a rental car.
I remember reading To Have and Have Not and I remember Harry Morgan having that job to take all of the Chinese immigrants from Havana to some lonely stretch of beach (I can't remember if it was in Key West or closer to Miami -- I don't think he ever takes them there anyway).
I'm looking forward to visiting and it will be a shame to have a boring touristy visit. If you can give me a pointer on a fun place to stay that's historically interesting, I will be in your debt.
You have friends or suggestions about rental condos, I'd appreciate that too. I've been looking around Craigslist so far.
If you know a place to rent a motorcycle in the Keys, that would be very good too.
I'm sorry to bother you with so many questions, but you do seem to know your way around there and I don't.
You can send me a note, if you like, at sean "at" effortlessmobility.com.
You have a great blog. I miss my motorcycle and the Keys seem like a beautiful place for riding.
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