MIJAMI

With due respect to Captain Stengel, you just can’t say you have experienced cruising the east coast until you have spent considerable time in Miami.  It is easier and cheaper and more comfortable than New York City.  It gives you much the same, attractions, arts, humanities, sciences, services.  The gurls are way more beautiful, and they wear way less clothes.

First, the weather.  You just can’t complain when the weather is over eighty during the day in January and February, and a bit below seventy at night.

Second, the Columbian and Cuban food.  You just can’t complain about a $6.00 breakfast that includes bistec, huevos, arepa, arroz, frijoles, and café con leche.  Then, when you want a great jazz bar with more elegant food and entertainment, you go to Van Dykes!

Third, you find two Publixes within an eighth mile of the dinghy.  (Granted the dinghy tie up is less than ideal.  It is odd tieing up to a bridge and clambering over the guardrail, but it is normal here.)

Fourth, you find Enterprise Rental Car within a sixteenth mile of the dinghy.

Fifth, you have Miami International within a $20.00 cab ride of the dinghy.

Sixth, you find a world class beach less than a mile from the dinghy.

And it goes on and on . . . .