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44 g o i n g p l a c e s | w i n t e r 2 0 1 4 Labour Day in 1935 when a Category 5 hurri- cane destroyed a portion of the line and swept a railcar into the ocean, killing hundreds. e line was then refurbished and used for auto- mobile traffic until the current Seven Mile Bridge was completed in the 1980s. Running parallel to its predecessor – and a tad shorter at 6.8 miles (almost 11 km) – the new bridge is already iconic and has been fea- tured in a number of films including License to Kill, True Lies and Mission Impossible II, along with numerous car commercials and episodes of Miami Vice. From the bar's patio, I take it all in: the sun slipping behind the horizon, the shim- mering water lapping against the shore, a green iguana staring me down from the beach trail below. "Would you like another, sir?" asks the waitress in an accent I can't quite place. I feel the warm breeze off the ocean. Is that "Margaritaville" playing on the sound system? It has never sounded so good. Keys Disease is beginning to kick in. GP For more information, visit www.fla-keys.com. To book a trip to the Florida Keys, call CAA Travel at 204-262-6000 or 1-800-992-8143. tribute to Grey, the famed western author and avid outdoorsman who, like Hemingway, also called the Keys home for a time. e rod- and-gun-themed bar boasts walls of mounted fish, a stuffed leopard, an antelope head, a collection of Grey's fishing rods and reels, shelves of books and grainy black-and-white photos of Grey standing next to some of the largest, fiercest-looking fish I've ever seen. Among them, an 800-pound (362-kilogram) White Death Shark caught off the coast of Sidney in 1939 only months after Grey had suffered a stroke. My tangle with a toothless tarpon suddenly doesn't seem so heroic. Bridge Over Placid Waters My wistful mood continues into the night as I kick back at the Sunset Grille in Marathon to enjoy one last margarita and watch the sunset from my perch at the foot of the historic Seven Mile Bridge. e aging structure, or what's left of it, was built between 1909 and 1912 as part of oil tycoon Henry Flagler's Overseas Rail- road, which came to an infamous end on