It can't be true, some say, that Key West is as laid-back as people claim it to be. If Key West seems part fiction and part reality, well, just remember that Ernest Hemmingway once lived here. Just about everything or everybody comes with some type of story attached, be it myth, fact or just good 'ol legend. The pace here is slow, so slow, in fact, that it sometimes makes a place like Jamaica look like it's moving at speed of a medal-winning bobsled by comparison. Still it's a pretty contagious lifestyle.
Nobody comes to Key West to overdose on stress.
The fun in Key West goes beyond the setting of the sun. Key West is also a never-ending carnival. Its sunsets are daily rituals that bring out all the town's colors. As well as its colorful characters. This includes clowns to high-wire artists to a human statue.