I’d be lying if I said we booked our cruise last month
aboard Royal Caribbean’s Majesty of the Seas for any other reason than the day
and a half it spent docked in Havana, Cuba.
After all, until recently Havana had been effectively off limits to most
Americans for so long, it’s still a little hard to fathom that we can now
travel there (with a “valid reason,” of course).
That said, one of my favorite things about the cruise was
that it finally allowed me to show Punky a little slice of Key West, which was
also on the itinerary. I had been to the
Conch Republic before, but it had been more than 15 years ago, so I was eager
to get reacquainted with some of my favorite places on the island, too. We only had roughly eight hours to explore,
but I think we made the most of it.
The boat docked just off Mallory Square, the perfect
jumping off point, so to speak, for a long crawl into old Key West and
back. Once we were off the boat, it took
almost no time for us to be greeted by some of the more colorful locals. Most Key West residents live on what they
call island time, but the chickens must be an exception.
