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Living like a Tourist

I just wasn’t having a great day last Friday so my solution was to go to Joe’s Stone Crabs for lunch.

From past experience I know that always makes a bad day better. As I am heading towards South Beach I drive over the causeway and the water is really turquoise. It looked like the color they make the opening scene of CSI Miami T.V. show. I always thought they artificially colored those beginning shots, but here it was just gorgeous. Then I saw the port where all the cruise ships depart from on my right and to the left was Star Island home to many of the rich and famous.

I exited the causeway and as I made my way up 5th street the energy there was palpable. Here it was the last week of February and people were dressed ready for the beach. The shops and restaurants were bustling and there was no sign of trying economic times here. My thought was how unique an area this was and how fortunate I was to live here. No doubt if I was visiting that I wouldn’t want to stay for good.

When I finished a terrific lunch topped off with a colada (cuban coffee) for the ride home I decided to take the long way home up Collins Avenue through South Beach, then North Beach to Bal Harbour everywhere planted with bright beautiful flowers and realized my not great day couldn’t get much better.

If you know Miami at all check out this 1957 video of how Miami used to be . You’ll see that as much has changed a lot is still the same.