Higgs Beach is one of the most pristine beaches in the Keys and Salute! On the Beach is right smack dab on the sand. While we came for the view and some rays we ended up watching kite surfing and playing volleyball. Feeling thirsty we looked up steps from our beach chairs and noticed happy […]
The incredible beauty of a butterfly is quite intriguing. The transformation of the caterpillar is amazing, interesting and represents our own journey of growth coming out of our cocoon and blossoming like a flower, sustaining and nourishing the butterfly. The caterpillar, butterfly and flower represent harmonious beauty and transformation. All this wonder can be experienced […]
Peanut Island Go Nuts!! What an amazing way to spend a day or camping weekend snorkeling, boating, fishing and a tiki bar for fun. Doggie’s welcome at the park and on shuttles. Family fun with a high standard of awareness and care toward boaters, marine life and our precious manatees. Nothing better than snorkeling with […]
One of the last streets crossed by Route One bears the name of John Simonton, who, in 1821, purchased “Cayo Hueso” for $2,000 from a Spaniard, who’s country had just lost the Spanish-American War. Thanks to Simonton and his friends from Alabama, a wrecking economy soon arose, as entrepreneurs with sails descended on Key West […]
After shooting videos of our friends kite surfing at Higgs beach in Key West, we were walking to our car when we spotted a sign for the Key West Wildlife Center. Entering through the gates we found a nature trail with a freshwater pond and two aviaries full of birds. They operate a clinic on […]
Key lime pie still on my mind! Have a slice…or my “Favorite” a whole pie! Six inches of meringue with a tart and sweet finish. The best way to treat yourself to this decadence is at Blue Heaven restaurant, pure Key West style surrounded with ambiance of roving roosters, chicks, with open-air dining, live music […]
Driving up Route 1 North heading to the sold out 75th Daytona 500 NASCAR race, my thoughts drifted to all the good times that we had there. As a teen living in Jacksonville, Florida I frequented the track quite often in the 60s and 70s with my older brother. We were fans of Fireball Roberts, […]
While the Harvard Museum of Natural History may have only been founded in 1998, don’t let that fool you: it’s actually the combination of three much older museums in Harvard. The first, the Museum of Comparative Zoology, was founded in 1859 and has a collection consisting of approximately 21 million specimens, although naturally all of […]
The Casa Marina is a 100-year-old beachfront Art Deco Hotel landmark in Key West. It was conceived by Standard Oil tycoon Henry M Flagler, visionary developer of the Florida Keys Over-Sea Railroad that stretched from the Florida mainland across the islands to Key West. While Flagler had built majestic hotels up and down the east […]
The Ray and Maria Stata Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, generally referred to as the Stata Center, is a building designed by famed architect Frank Gehry in the Deconstructivist architectural style he is best known for. Gehry, who also designed the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Dancing House in Prague, […]
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