Some people think it amusing that Key West's highest contour is but 16 feet (4.5 meters) above the sea. Solares Hill makes for a nice spot to take a bicycle if you'd like a stretch of downhill for a change. And though the hill itself is actually located on Angela Street one block over, it's upper slopes reach out to Petronia Street forcing a cyclist to put in some effort to get over the rise:
.You can cycle uphill to this spot from over by the Schooner Wharf Bar if you feel like it. Elizabeth starts (or ends) in front of Conch Republic Seafood. 
Elizabeth Street runs by on a lovely downhill glide all the way to Truman Avenue where cars and motorbikes are all backed up waiting for the light to change so they can spill onto Duval Street. 
Of course you would be cycling the wrong way on a one way street which could get you pulled over...perhaps you might plead your case for a stern verbal warning. I'd give it a try for the pleasure of the long free wheel down hill.
Petronia Street is full of classic Conch touches.
And here we have a church that puts me in mind of another island I have long wanted to visit. My wife and I considered a cruise ship ride to Bermuda from Charleston with a two night stopover (and rented scooters of course) on the island. But those were happier economic times and now I content myself with armchair travel. This church, one of the trillion in Key West has the square bell tower of a solid Church of England export built in a bright sunny land, the sort of thing I'd expect to see in Bermuda. Except it's on Petronia street.
I can't keep the names of all these churches straight so from the horse's mouth as it were...
A dude next door was frozen in one single posture saying hi to passers by. I returned the salute with a picture.
His home was as trim and neat as he was himself:
As you look through these pictures of various aspects of the historic little homes at the top of the hill you might be struck, as am I by the deep blue sky overhead. 
These are the homes that have survived storms and wars and depressions and population growth and bankruptcy.
The sun shines, the banana trees grow and give us a splash of green between the white and the blue.
Whitmarsh Lane is open to car traffic believe it or not. You could drive here from Angela Street and the "real" Solares Hill. Notice the downhill slope toward the camera.
The unnecessarily tall pillbox on the skyline isn't a defensive measure, it's just a commercial building struggling for a view in a community that is so flat the best you can normally do is see a sea of roof lines. 
And palm trees of course.
The homes have endured here for decades, some of them, for much longer some others. 
And the sun still shines on them on Petronia Street. Banksters be damned.
.You can cycle uphill to this spot from over by the Schooner Wharf Bar if you feel like it. Elizabeth starts (or ends) in front of Conch Republic Seafood. Elizabeth Street runs by on a lovely downhill glide all the way to Truman Avenue where cars and motorbikes are all backed up waiting for the light to change so they can spill onto Duval Street. Of course you would be cycling the wrong way on a one way street which could get you pulled over...perhaps you might plead your case for a stern verbal warning. I'd give it a try for the pleasure of the long free wheel down hill.
Petronia Street is full of classic Conch touches.And here we have a church that puts me in mind of another island I have long wanted to visit. My wife and I considered a cruise ship ride to Bermuda from Charleston with a two night stopover (and rented scooters of course) on the island. But those were happier economic times and now I content myself with armchair travel. This church, one of the trillion in Key West has the square bell tower of a solid Church of England export built in a bright sunny land, the sort of thing I'd expect to see in Bermuda. Except it's on Petronia street.
I can't keep the names of all these churches straight so from the horse's mouth as it were...A dude next door was frozen in one single posture saying hi to passers by. I returned the salute with a picture.His home was as trim and neat as he was himself:As you look through these pictures of various aspects of the historic little homes at the top of the hill you might be struck, as am I by the deep blue sky overhead. 
These are the homes that have survived storms and wars and depressions and population growth and bankruptcy.The sun shines, the banana trees grow and give us a splash of green between the white and the blue.
Whitmarsh Lane is open to car traffic believe it or not. You could drive here from Angela Street and the "real" Solares Hill. Notice the downhill slope toward the camera.The unnecessarily tall pillbox on the skyline isn't a defensive measure, it's just a commercial building struggling for a view in a community that is so flat the best you can normally do is see a sea of roof lines. 
And palm trees of course.The homes have endured here for decades, some of them, for much longer some others. 
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I have heard this before,however maybe you can confirm this for me.Is it true that Key West has more bars and churches per capita than anywhere else in the U.S.? It sounds about right to me.
Buffalo Bill
That is a common saying and for a city of 23,000 permanent residents it seems likely.
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