Category Archives: Florida

April 27, 1981 – NYC – Key West – NYC – Journal Entry

November 9, 2024 – 1:08 am

April 27, 1981 – NYC – Key West – NYC – Journal Leave the Mudd Club Almost 4 Bag in hand A cab ride To the Holland Tunnel No traffic Stick out my thumb Cold Skies threaten snow___ A warming from a Transit Cop I ignore him A ride into Jersey To the Vince Lombardi […]

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January 7, 1987 – Everglades City – Journal

July 31, 2024 – 9:51 pm

Tomorrow a winter storm will be hitting the Gulf Coast and late afternoon I left Sarasota Miami bound. Storm clouds westrising over the western horizen and I thought about stopping for the night. Pam Vaughan, my hostess on Siesta Key, had holidayed at the Rod and Reel Club and suggested staying the night at a […]

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Bastille Day / Palm Beach 2008

July 14, 2024 – 6:08 am

Most Americans have an unfavorable attitude toward the French. This antipathy is based on the abuse most US tourists have suffered from dismissive Paris waiters. Few realize that these garcons are rude to their own countrymen as well as any estrangers. That is not to say that the French don’t subscribe to a haughty self-esteem. […]

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Bring on the Revolution – 2011

May 3, 2024 – 8:10 am

Last week I went out to eat with my nephews and their parents at a Mexican restaurant on Okochobee Boulevard in West Palm Beach. The conversation gravitated to sports; baseball for Trey, golf for Reese, and basketball for their father and me. Their mother was happy to be left in peace. After dinner we stepped […]

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WICKED YOUTH – CHAPTER 6

April 30, 2024 – 9:33 am

VI Sunny Isles belonged to Miami Beach, but the beach strip wasn’t South Beach with big hotels serving rich tourists with a view of the Gulf Stream. Budget hotels blocked the beach view and once off the strip the swamps ran west to the Everglades. The snowbirds’ exodus began before the Spring Break and hit […]

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