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focus of the song "Last Mango in Paris." I made sure I
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• Fewer people know that Jimmy and several Buff ett
family members have long been entrenched in
Montana. So I had to go and experience a Livings-
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would be no room for doubt, and true to prophecy,
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For for you! film starring Jeff Bridges and Sam Waterston called
Rancho Deluxe featuring an extended bar scene cameo
Over 25 years! from Jimmy himself.
• Buffett music is very popular along the Gulf of Mexico,

DCS raised (Alabama). I went to Galveston not for Glen
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line by line. In New Orleans I ate donuts at the Cafe du
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The Pascagoula Run. I might have even passed through

the town where Buffett's sister Lulu owns a bar, bought
The longest sustained euphoric seasons of my life, either alone the house a round, and signed my name on the wall

or with a rotation of people and pets who have come and gone
of a ladies bathroom stall. It's my job to be a shining
from my side, were during the planning and execution of road
example of love in decline, aft er all.
trips. So it just popped into my head randomly, on November
28th, 2012, that I had to see every place mentioned in every I could go on all night entertaining fellow Parrotheads work-

Buffett song. Good things happen in Glen Burnie aft er all. ing in obscure lyrics that are a long way from West Nashville
ballrooms, but I only have so many pages to fill per issue so

In an incredibly awful year for me personally and profes-
I can assure you that the coast is clear. I will close by quot-
sionally, I suddenly roared back to life with purpose. Have
ing a few lines from "That's What Living is To Me" (a song I

I visited every single lyrical reference since I first made the

incorporate into motivational speeches when organizations

decision to Buffettize my travel a decade ago? Not even close. schedule me) and hope that this column encourages you to
Is it something that has brought meaning, purpose, and joy
follow your own songlines wherever they take you and with
to my life? Yes indeed.
whoever escorts you on that whimsical musical journey:
For example:

• Key West, Florida, is Jimmy Buffett Ground Zero. Be good, and you will be lonesome.

Though his first stint there lasted for just seven years,

Be lonesome and you will be free.

it defined him for about the next fi fty. My fi rst visit

was in 2009. I sought out a "Jimmy Buff ett Reality Live a lie and you will live to regret it.
Tour" guide and got to see everything from where he

originally lived to where his subtly placed Shrimpboat That's what living is to me.
Sound recording studio is hidden in plain sight. Th ere
That's what living is to me.

are so many Key West bars and restaurants and stores
that use his lyrics for their business names there I can't
possibly list them all, but I will say that the walking
tour started at Captain Tony's Saloon, which is the
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