Here's Your Sign You Needed a Key West Vacation: Dinner Reservations Started Feeling Optional

Back home, dinner is a plan. A time. A reservation made three weeks ago that you're now mildly stressed about.

In Key West, dinner is a direction.

You head south. Or toward the harbor. Or wherever the breeze is going. You walk past three places that look good before settling into the fourth, which turned out to be perfect.

Nobody asked your last name. Nobody handed you a buzzer. The host just pointed at a table near the open window and said, "Sit wherever you like."