Marge and I were reluctant to leave the balmy breezes of Key West. And looking forward to visiting the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami. I must say that Little Havana has been a highlight of our trip, so local and so colorful, and ohhhh, the yummilicious Cuban coffee. We spent much of yesterday wandering up and down Calle Ocha/8th Ave, the main street of Little Havana. The public art is full of spirit, the park is full of men playing dominoes, and street is full of miniscule pedestrian coffee bars, where two-to-three stools are placed outside on the sidewalk, and you can just 'belly up to the bar', so to speak.
After sating ourselves on Cuban pastries, Cuban sandwiches and Cuban coffee, we finally departed for Fort Lauderdale, a different world entirely! We stayed at Pier 66, and gaped at the Mega-yacht tied up alongside the pier. It appears Steven Spielberg has just purchased this brand new super luxury yacht, built in the Netherlands. It must be making its way to southern California.
I learned that it has a few rather prominent features - a swimming pool that empties, raises, and converts to a helipad when a chopper is approaching, two theatres, one indoors and one out, 12 staterooms, and an entire deck just for Spielberg. It is over 250 ft long, carries a crew of 26, and cost approximately 200 million dollars!
After a fun 10 days, I dropped Marge off in Deerfield Beach and am now proceeding north, where I hope to meet a friend and tour the Kennedy Space Center and Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge before a mini Roadtrek gathering in Ormond Beach.
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| One of the many tiny pedestrian coffee bars along Calle Ocha |
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| Street art in Little Havana |
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| Building/tile art |
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| local produce shop |
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| Couldn't resist; I used to have a Prius like that! |
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| There were many cigar shops along Calle Ocha |
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| Steven Speilberg's new megayacht (in the distance), the Seven Seas |
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