Friday, November 7th, Miami Everglades Park, Miami and South Beach

Following a very “interesting” drive through the outskirts of Miami to get to the Miami Everglades   This is a very nice park that is in the middle of many large commercial type nurseries.  It has all the usual amenities along with a paved walking trail that is one mile long around the edge of the park which included Avocado trees with fresh and ripening Avocados.  Diane picked a few during a walk about and we had them in our morning smoothies.  Very nice, the difference to the Haas Avocado’s that we are used to in Arizona is the size of the pit or seed.  The Haas Avocado has a much smaller pit in relationship to the size of the fruit itself.  They tasted very nice and obviously very fresh!
RV Park we settled in for the evening.

The following morning we decided to repeat the driving process without the trailer to visit with friends at their Penthouse Condo rental very near the beach in Miami.  Another “interesting” drive, I am sure the people of Miami do not know what the little stick thing is on the left side of the steering wheel that operates the turn signals because very few of them used it.

Ron met us and guided us to the under ground parking – thank you, thank you, thank you!  The truck just fit with ½ inch to spare, whew!!  We had to be careful around the fire sprinkler heads, as this was even closer to the roof at times. 

 

Off we went to visit South Beach by bus.  The ride there was normal and we had a great walk looking at all the expensive houses, condos and copious amounts of silicon on the beach.  Following lunch and more walking through different hotels of the rich and famous.  Nope did not see anyone famous, must have been just the rich there that day.

It was time to head back to the condo, we only forgot one thing, rush hour on a Friday afternoon – oops!  I am sure we are now much more familiar with many Miami locals than we were before we got on the bus.  There was no worry about falling over as we were packed in so tight we couldn’t move.  I was just hoping no one had beer and/or pickled eggs J.

After we got back to the condo Diane and I decided to hold off driving home until after the rush hour traffic and spent the early evening talking and sitting on the balcony watching the sun set.

The drive back to the campground was much more relaxing.