And now we continue with the stories of my trip to Key West. When we last left off, I got loaded going bar hopping by myself on Tuesday night. I woke up Wednesday morning surprisingly not hung over in the least. In fact, I felt fine. It wasn’t long before we found ourselves going up and down Duval street. For those of you that haven’t been, it is the main street in Key West in which everything worth doing is located. Every other building seemed to be a souvenir store next to a restaurant and or bar. And they all seemed to have shirts with funny sayings on them. We eventually made our way all the way down to the end and found ourselves on a beach. We were relaxing on some chairs for about 45 minutes before some guy came up to us and told us that it would cost $5 to rent the chairs. Turns out it was a beach for a local resort. It was fine though because we had our fill of sitting.
Now I can’t quite remember where we ate dinner on this night. Eventually though we made it all the way down to the west end of Duval street on the beach where there was a large gathering of people to watch the sunset. There seemed to be quite a few street performers playing music. We wound up in front of some guy who was playing some mellow music as we watched the sun drop into the ocean behind an island. It was nice.
Once again, by about 10 in the pm I found myself bar hopping alone at night while my friends went back to the hotel to go to bed. Although I went back to the same place I went to the night before, after that I walked over to a local gay bar and hung out there for a bit. Next I walked 10 or so blocks to a gay bathhouse. This was my first time in one. It was quiet and after one beer, I decided to head back to the hotel. I didn’t want to walk all the way back to Duval to hail a cab so I wound up walking the mile back to the hotel. Walking a mile in the heat is a real buzz and I was nearly fully sober by the time I got home.
Thursday I slept in while the girls went snorkeling. After they got back, we went to a really good seafood place that some friends of ours recommended called Hogfish. We got to eat outside on the pier right next to the ocean. It was a great atmosphere and we even got to throw our shrimp skins into the ocean for the other fish to eat when we were done.
Thursday night was interesting. I was wearing a shirt that those same friends who suggested Hogfish bought me when they were in Key West that read “Fuck you, you fucking fuck.” Such a shirt is right up my ally and totally my style. I can honestly say that nobody gave me any dirty looks or complained to me about my shirt. In fact, it was quite the opposite: I got a lot of compliments on it.
One of my friends wound up sick and went back to the hotel. My other friend and I went to the top of the highest point in Key West, the 6th floor of a hotel and watched a beautiful sunset. Next, we took in a drag show at a place called Aqua. It was there that I met this really adorable bartender who said “nice shirt” to which i quickly replied “nice face.” He was so hyper and cute with these big ears and I couldn’t take my eyes off of him. Every time I went up to get a beer I made sure to talk to him and flirt with him. He seemed very receptive to it as well which was good. There was also another cute guy there with a girl and another guy. I could not figure out if he was gay or not. As for the drag show, it was very funny and really good.
After the drag show my other friend headed back to the hotel at about 1 am. I went bar hopping to another gay bar and ran into the cute guy from Aqua. So I started talking to him. Turns out, he is in the British Royal Navy. And, he is gay. He went on to tell me that of the 250 person crew that was here in Key West, only two of them were gay. Yet, he was hanging out with a bunch of his straight friends from the crew and many of them were hanging out at the gay bars in town. I found this amazing; I don’t know of any straight American guys who would hang out at gay bars and certainly not any straight American military members.
I wound up hanging out with him and a couple of friends of his along with another guy from the gay bar for quite some time. We went across the street to another gay bar to hang out and this is when things got even crazier. It is also the part you might want to skip if you aren’t into hearing about the escapades of naked gay guys.
So we walk into this bar and this naked guy comes up to me. He is wearing nothing. Well, nearly nothing. He had on a cock ring. He goes on to explain to me that he had testicular cancer and was starting a website to raise awareness about testicular cancer. And he was going around taking pictures of guy’s balls. Of course he asked me if he could take a picture of my balls so I let him. In retrospect, I wonder if he was full of shit and just wanted a picture of guys balls. Meh, it doesn’t matter to me if he is sitting around jerking off to my balls.
A short while later we were standing in an enclosed outdoor porch of the bar and he was telling me all about the story of his testicular cancer. Right about then, another totally naked guy walked in, sat down and started jerking off. We continued to talk when after a few minutes, the jerk off guy got up and just started eating out the ass of the guy I was talking to. Here we were in the middle of a serious conversation when this dope starts rimming the fuck out of this guy. Yeah, it kind of ruined the mood.
After going back to the other bar for a little bit, I called it a night about 4 am and managed to catch a cab back to the hotel. So that was Wednesday and Thursday. Tomorrow, I’ll finish the rest of the trip.