Miami, Miami Beach, Delray Beach

SAT June 26

Nice drive up the Keys and once off the Keys a short drive up the coast to Miami.

The RV park I am staying at is nice but two comments. Most parks have nice little signs saying to not park on the grass so they can keep it growing, here the grass blanket is so deep you couldn’t kill it if you tried, legally tried that is. Second comment is on their swimming pool; it is round, 3’ deep at the edges going to 6’ in the middle. I haven’t ever seen a pool designed like that and the biggest problem as I see it is that it allows small children to be all around you, can’t go to the deep end and hang on to get away from them. Ah but the water was nice and refreshing.

I went into Miami Beach and the South Beach area and to compare Key West Duval Street with South Beach, I like Duval Street better, seems like a better class of people.

They have some really tall apartment buildings here and with my earthquake mentality from California I don’t think I would be very comfortable on the 25+ floor. They also have a lot of boats, seems like per capita, Florida tops the list for personal boats. But topping the list are the out of control drivers. The politicians let the population grow without a growth in infrastructure and then had to turn 2-lane roads into thin lane 3-lane roads and the drivers drive way over the speed limit and swerve between lanes without signals cutting you off, not for me.

SUN

Drove north from Miami with a stop off in Delray Beach to have lunch with my Aunt Marian Knox Buehler and meet her son Chuck. We talked for three hours catching up each other and enjoying a good lunch. I also picked up mail that Marla had forwarded to me in care of Marian.

Watch out for Florida Turnpikes, I paid $9.00 to drive about 42-miles.

I pulled into a beautiful RV park in Titusville and when hooking up I noticed that my curb-side rear tire had thrown off all the retread and was going flat fast; you know those long pieces of tire rubber you see on highways, well one of them is mine. Boy was I lucky it didn’t happen 4-miles earlier when I was on the Interstate. Tomorrow I’ll get it changed and buy a new one.