out from Aspen.  We decided to make it a romantic roadtrip down the Florida Keys.

We flew from Aspen to Miami, where picked up a banana yellow convertible and checked in to the Tides hotel in the art deco heart of South Beach.

The Tides is the perfect basis from which to explore South Beach

After a leisurely South Beach morning we put the top down on the Mustang and headed off down the Keys.

In Key West we stayed in a little cottage on a private island called Sunset Key.

Each morning a basket was left on our front porch with fresh muffins and juice.

Taking the boat to the mainland:..

We began with a Conch Train tour, then set off on foot to explore town. 

we visited Hemingway's house (& Hemingway's cats; dozens of them):

Each night a postcard was left in our cottage to tell us the time of sunset for the next evening.

and each evening we watched the sun set across the sea beyond the little island.

On the way back up the Keys for a final night in Miami we stopped to admire the long-abandoned bridges of the old Overseas Railway...

and had a leisurely picnic lunch over-looking the mathematically-named Seven Mile Bridge.

On Marathon Keys we visited Flipper's kids & grandkids at the Dolphin Research Center.

and fly back home to snowy Aspen.