Fiesta Key - Layton, FL

Stayed at: Fiesta Key (Thousand Trails campground)

Dates of stay: Oct. 9 - 23, 2021

Owen’s YouTube video of Florida Keys HERE

We spent two amazing weeks here and still have so much left to see and experience, although we enjoyed a slow pace here - which I think must be the best way to enjoy the Keys anyways. We really liked our campground, which is part of the Thousand Trails family. They led us to a spot that was practically oceanside, and a great place to be able to launch the kayaks. Hot here - which is great, as the pool is amazing and the time at which we visited is not high tourist season so at times, we had the place to ourselves. There is also a great oceanside swim area, from which we saw dolphins swimming just offshore. The campground also has a marina, and we indulged ourselves by imagining how much fun it would be to have a boat to explore the area.

During this trip, I learned about a great feature in Trip Advisor. I’ve used TA for years, but somehow, never knew that you could assign places to go on specific dates within a specific trip. This was a great way to track where we went, what we did, and when. So if you’re interested in knowing about what we’d recommend, check out my Florida Keys plan on Trip Advisor. A lot of these places were heavily influenced by suggestions from my cousin Eric, who is extremely well traveled in this area. Everything he suggested was amazing - from the Turtle Hospital to Hogfish Bar & Grill. And there were plenty of places we didn’t even make it to!

During our time here, we met up with another family who had a boy Owen’s age, so it was great for them to be able to pal around for a week together. They are also a “fulltime” family, and we’ve been meeting more of them as our trip goes on. One family we met here had eleven children - although “only seven” of them were traveling in the RV with them! As they say in the south “Bless their heart.”