Sep 15, 2017
From Dennis: This week, I had planned to post a
collection of short interviews I did with the people I met on my
recent press trip to Key West, Florida for Man About World
magazine. Then Hurricane Irma happened. One of the people I met and
interviewed while I was there was Cody White who runs a small tour
company with his husband Ryan called Nomadic SUP (SUP stands for
stand-up paddleboard, which is the type of tour the company
specializes in). Our group didn't get to go out on the water
because it was too windy that day but Cody showed us the beautiful
area where the tours usually happen and talked a bit about the
local ecosystem. After dropping our group off at The Equator resort
where we were staying, I talked Cody doing an interview over
blizzards at a nearby Dairy Queen. Leading up to the storm, I read
Cody's Facebook posts about all the preparations he, his husband
and their friends were doing. Then the storm hit. There were no
posts for a couple of days and then Cody posted that he was okay.
"Some
in Key West are uncomfortable but most are okay and the town is
bouncing back quickly as we now have emergency cell service and
power and water are coming back relatively quickly." I asked him in
the interview if he had ever gone through a major hurricane and he
said, "Nope, knock wood." He also talked about how he ended up in
Key West, what it' like to have an Airstream trailer, Key West's
passion for costume parties, how tourists react when they learn
he's gay and why Key West is the place for him.
www.nomadicsup.com