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Archive for October, 2007

Fantasy Fest 2007

Every year during the last full week of October is Fantasy Fest in Key West. This year the theme is “Gnomes, Toads and White Rabbit Tea Parties”.

If you aren’t familiar with Fantasy Fest, well think of it like Mardi Gras tropical style. This is a week long event that includes daily activities, shows, costume contests, food festivals, somewhat strange competitions, street fairs and the party goes long into the night every night. This isn’t a Disney event, its a party for the “big kids”

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Conchs

In the winter of 1995 I was sitting in the back bedroom of my trailer in Kalamazoo Michigan. I had just come in from being under the trailer for the third time that week with a blowtorch to thaw my water pipes so I could take a hot shower and thaw out after a hard days work.

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