Yesterday we drove down to Key West. The trip was disappointing for me because we hardly got to see the things I thought were most interesting. There's a lot of attractions in Key West, but we didn't plan ahead at all. Instead, we walked around with no sense of where we were going or a set destination. Nevertheless, we managed to walk past one landmark I was interested in: the Harry S. Truman Little White House.
Built in 1890 by the U.S. Navy, the house served as a command center for the island's naval station. Before it's use as a retreat for President Truman between 1946 and 1952, it was used by Thomas Edison during World War I while he made weapons for the Navy. President John F. Kennedy was here in 1961 for a summit with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. In 2001, former Secretary of State Colin Powell was at the Little White House for peace talks between the governments of Armenia and Azerbaijan. And while vacationing in Key West in 2005, the Clintons stayed here for a weekend.
After leaving Key West, we stopped for lunch at Sparky's Landing on Key Colony Beach in Marathon. The food was great and so was the service. Our waiter wrote nothing down, but remembered everything. I highly recommend it.
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