Smell those shrimp, they’re beginnin’ to boil…

At Mile Marker Zero, the southernmost city in America, there is a certain degree of relaxation that you cannot fake.

You are either Key West or you’re not. Against his better judgment, MWO’s Editorial Director Mark Strand faces the music with regards to his getup as he interviews author Mandy Miles. Miles, after all, is the author of “Key West Dos and Don’ts: 100 Ways to Look Like a Local,” a best-selling book about how to blend in to these curvatures of the earth.

If you are from the Midwest and love to get the heck out of the winter cold for at least a week every winter, this is some great advice for how to move forward once you land in the land of warmth…