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Uhaul to the Keys!

UPDATE: As of now our trip has been postponed due to lack of infrastructure and communication in the Keys. I will be going down to the Keys as soon as I can to help my friends in need. For any information or follow up further please feel free to email me at TOR@TORsAdventures.com
Ok folks…  my friend Grace and I are driving a truck and a Uhaul from Charlotte, NC down to the keys with water and supplies. Grace is a manager at the Key West Butterfly Conservatory.  As some of you have seen on the news our Keys have been decimated.  At the moment, the thing that is needed most is water!  Water, Batteries and non-perishable foods.   We have been granted permission to go to mm 74 and we will wing it from there.   We are working with some organizations that are already there and in place and ready to accept items.  Grace’s husband and dog stayed home in Key West and are safe.  They are helping to assess the needs for Key West.  Email me if you would like to make a donation! Or just click on the super easy donate button. We want to fill this baby up! I know you have all probably just donated to Harvey and the telethon but you can see from the news coverage, the Keys are not getting the kind of attention they should be.  Your donation will make a huge difference to the people currently without power, water and other necessary supplies!  (toilet paper, feminine products, paper towels, hand sanitizer )   Think about what you would need if you had no water!  NO POWER.
 
Key West  is where I lived and called home for the past 4 years. These are my people, my friends, my family and they have a huge need. Hurricane Irma did massive amounts of destruction in the Keys and all over South Florida but the Keys were the worst hit.

 

Alabama Jack’s – Key Largo

Alabama Jack's - Key Largo - Bloodline - Netflix - FL Keys - Islamorada - Florida Keys - TORsAdventures 01Scott and I have been a fan of the show Bloodline since it came out last year. Mainly because it was filmed here in the Keys and we get to test our knowledge of US1 since we have made countless trips up and down the Keys over the years. It’s also a very interesting story about a family that has some of the same problems you do and then just a few more! We were on our way home from Miami and I was reading about some of the places that the show was filmed and we decided to stop and have lunch at one of the locations. Alabama Jack’s is where a scene from season 1 was filmed with Danny eating their famous fish tacos. If you ask anyone in the upper keys they will tell you “Oh Yeah! I have been there 100 times and its great!” Well I Alabama Jack's - Key Largo - Bloodline - Netflix - FL Keys - Islamorada - Florida Keys - TORsAdventures 03had never heard of it before reading about it and I am happy we stopped. The food was great and the view was even better! We sat over looking the water and had a good view up and down the canal. Our waitress told us they have a local crocodile that they see a few times a week. Its also a local hangout for the manatees that my husband thinks don’t exist and refers to them as the unicorns of the sea. We LOVE chicken wings and seem to order them everywhere we go just to give them a try. These were really good but just so you know when you order hot …. they mean HOT! It was really spicy. I also ordered the fish tacos and they were delightful!