I’ve never been a Miami person. Every time I go, I end up in an area that’s loud, expensive, and subject to membership fees. The bars, which are sometimes right below or above your hotel room, bump until the early-morning hours. Supercar exhausts and police sirens wail down the streets, day and night.
The social clubs are so strict that when I hosted an event at one last year, I went to the on-site restaurant for lunch and had to beg them to let me buy food because I wasn’t a member. After consulting a manager, they finally did.
I prefer things quiet and affordable, so I’ve always avoided these areas. But last weekend at the Formula One Miami Grand Prix, I finally participated. It was unlike any F1 weekend I’ve experienced — the ultimate show of wealth in the most showy city in America. It felt like being in an alternate universe.
F1 Is Fully American Now, Including Miami
The F1 Miami Grand Prix is young, and it was born in a new era of F1. The inaugural event happened in 2022 as a result of Formula One’s boom in the United States, which coincided with its massively popular Netflix docuseries Drive to Survive.
The race happens at the Miami Dolphins’ NFL stadium, 15 miles from downtown, which is about 90 minutes in bumper-to-bumper race traffic. Miami is part of F1’s growing race calendar, which, in the past few years, has gone from one U.S. event (Circuit of The Americas in Austin, Texas) to three (Austin, Miami, and Las Vegas).
The Miami track looks fancy, with teal grandstand seats and runoff areas painted in palm-tree patterns. But ultimately, it uses the existing facilities: The circuit cuts directly through the stadium’s parking lots; the Turn 18 suites use an indoor training complex for food, drink, and merchandise stations; and the paddock sits inside the actual arena. This year in Miami, McLaren driver Oscar Piastri won the race and extended his championship lead.
F1 has been on the American market since the 1950s, but over the decades, reception was iffy at best. Almost every U.S. race has been doomed: track surfaces melted, heavy rains flooded races, tires disintegrated, and most recently in Austin, people just didn’t come.
Circuit of The Americas was the only American race from 2012 to 2022, and before the DTS boom, it struggled to stay on the F1 calendar — even signing megastar Taylor Swift as the concert headliner in 2016. I remember hoping she would attract more attendees, being disappointed, then looking at my phone map after on-track activities concluded and seeing a wall of traffic approaching the venue. They were there for her, not F1.
Now, F1 is popular on its own in America, and each grand prix feels like a stereotype of its host city. Austin is dotted with live music, cowboy hats, and barbeque. Vegas is the glittery desert oasis with sequined jackets, Elvis impersonators, and middle-of-the-night racing because time doesn’t exist there. Miami hosts the Crypto.com Miami Grand Prix, which says it all. Most people and things, including the fake trackside marina with yachts in it, feel crypto-invested or crypto-adjacent.
The Miami GP Isn’t Just About Racing — It’s About Perceived Opulence
This year was my first Miami Grand Prix, and I went with eBay Motors. The company sponsors the McLaren F1 team, and they brought me and other media out to watch the race and see their new charity auction collection. The collection has a bunch of clothes and accessories worn by supermodel Winnie Harlow, as well as a 27,000-mile Porsche 911 Carrera 4 Cabriolet from 1993 (the 964 generation). Harlow grew up around cars because her father was a mechanic, and her favorite parts of the 964 build are the ones that “tie the black-white look together,” like the blacked-out shift knob, steering wheel, seats, and frames around the headlights.
I accepted the eBay invitation, knowing I’m not big on the subculture that surrounds the Miami race. But on my first night in town, I walked outside and saw a street-parked Rolls-Royce Cullinan in the distance. It was covered in either crystal or glitter wrap (my eyes aren’t good enough to tell the difference), and a few inches in front of it was a Lamborghini Urus with the same treatment.
Down the street, a gold Huracán had the doors removed and duct tape all over the side mirrors. It had white, red, and black spray paint all over, spelling out various messages: “Need money 4 doors,” “#69,” “Will not run,” “Need money for tickets,” and more.
That was the moment I decided to embrace the absurdity of it all, at least for one weekend.
I went to Sexy Fish, a restaurant decorated in glitter, neon, fish tanks, intricate mosaics, and aquatic sculptures hanging from the ceiling. (“The restroom cost $1.8 million,” a staffer told me. When I went to see it, the bathroom attendant offered to take Instagram photos of my group. We accepted.)
I looked out over the ocean. I watched my friends spend $100 per shirt at the race. I saw an F1 jacket for $860 and gasped. I ordered $14 alcohol-infused brownie ice cream at a bar expecting at least three scoops, and it came in a can the size of single-serve cat food. A friend messaged as many people as possible, asking if they knew someone with a yacht. It all felt very Miami.
I stayed in Brickell — the financial district of Miami, dotted with rooftop clubs, ocean-view apartments, and restaurants with strict dress codes. There, you encounter a few things: gaudy supercars, cops, $20 cocktails, cigar smoke, lines of people waiting for things you had no idea were going on, and the constant knowledge that everyone is in competition to be the hottest and most opulent person in the room (and you are too, even if you lose).
Some people rip by in Lamborghinis — rented? owned? I can never tell — while others wear such current micro-trends that if they told me they got new outfits in the mail daily, I’d believe them.
Brickell during F1 is chaotic yet cohesive, with everyone trying to exude a derivative of the same absurd wealth and flashiness. It’s like being in a video game: extravagant characters placed to create a uniform environment, where no one is out of place, yet no one feels quite real, either. The city drips with new (potentially temporary) money, and the race does too.
I Don’t Love Miami’s Extravagance, But I Do See The Appeal
I’ve only ever seen the extravagant side of Miami, and I’m still not in love with it. For me, it’s a place to visit occasionally before going home to my cat, 20-year-old cars, and tennis shoes I’ve been gluing back together since 2008. At home, nothing is a hotness competition or a membership fee. It’s the opposite: comfortable. I thrive in comfort.
But after finally giving it a chance, I see the appeal of Miami. When you can afford the cost of entry — either with cash, rental fees, or debt — you’re immediately part of the “in” crowd. And if high school taught me anything, that’s all many people need.
Top photo: Depositphotos.com, author
I’ve been a car guy since forever, but I cannot make myself care about racing. I’ve tried it. I’ve been to live NHRA drag races, a bunch of NASCAR races, 12 hours of Sebring. I’ve watched F1 and Rally stuff on TV. I just cannot get into it. It’s just not my thing.
I guess it might have to do with the fact I couldn’t care less about sports of any kind.
it just takes one good race to get you hooked.
a lot I have been glad I record and fast forward through or just read a recap after, but watching a 24-hour race for a full 24 hours is a special activity I enjoy in June, there’s no sport quite like it
There are dozens of us. Dozens!
Me, neither. I appreciate the historic importance of past races; technological advances, cheats; and wild dead end ideas; or human the stories, but not to watch it. On TV, it’s mostly boring, in person it’s loud, crowded, and boring. I’m not much of a sports person, either, but I’d rather watch other sports on TV with the partial attention I can maintain for any of them and I downright enjoy hockey in person. Part of it probably, too, is that I don’t generally like hanging out with other car people, so there’s nobody to watch racing with, while the main reason I can enjoy other sports is that they are more social events with other people there.
For me it depends on the scale of it.
Large organizations with huge events where people follow drivers/teams is kinda boring.
However, smaller organizations like Lemons or Historic racing at the local race track is something I enjoy. You can walk around the paddock without a special pass, talk to the people about their cars. Got up close to a Iso Grifo A3/C, which was awesome.
Have you tried any of the vintage racing events? My wife and I love going to Indy for the SVRA Invitational there. The Pro/Am race is the only one where they’re all actually trying to win, the other class events are filled with a mix of people vaguely trying to win and others just parading around. Seeing the cars in motion with very few other people makes for a good time.
Most racing people I meet are not car people, so this is totally normal, surprisingly. A lot of NASCAR drivers aren’t even car people
that’s why I don’t do porn… the moment it is a job, i am not interested anymore.
I found the WRC racing interesting to watch, back in the late 90s, but I haven’t watch much since then.
There’s a NASCAR-adjacent engineer, Aedan McHugh, who writes interesting articles on this site about the physics involved. If it’s a preview article to a particularly challenging racetrack, I’ll likely watch it.
I record the F1 races but don’t always watch them.
Same here. Old Eurosport with WRC with Grönholm, Loeb, McRae… those were the times…
The only time I’ve been interested in it are going to the smaller events and being able to walk the paddock and see things up close. Like NHRA does nothing for me, but my local strip doing a test and tune or something low key is far more interesting.
you’re not alone. I have the same with bicycles too.
I love riding them but i can’t stand watching a bicycle sports at all. Tried Tour De France many time, fell asleep watching people struggle in pre-stroke condition
Give American Rally a shot, obviously you have to attend in person. There’s something special about standing out in the woods with strangers for a couple hours at a time waiting to have car every couple minutes spray you with gravel. Most drivers being otherwise normal, approachable car people doesn’t hurt either.
Miami is just Monaco… if it were completely generated by part time Cuban AI machines.
Eh, batante bien. Vamo a tomar un cafe!
(Edit: disturbingly close to Logan King’s comment directly below, whoa…)
haha I love how you wrote the dropped “s” in the words to more correctly read the accent!
I just love that it actually made sense in my head AND yours.
The Miami GP is the Monaco GP for people who don’t actually have status but plenty of money. It’s always been exactly what what you’d think of when imagining how GTA VI would conceive the event.
Crypto Monaco
“Monaco, a sunny place for shady people.”
–Peter Windsor (or his colleagues)
Miami is the one place I went to in Florida that I didn’t absolutely hate. I am not sure if that says something about Miami, Florida or me.
its pretty cheugy, everyone is trying way too hard
I had to google that word.
Miami is pick-me Mecca
Hahahaha
‘At home, nothing is a hotness competition or a subscription fee’
Preach. Comfortable and paid for: no flexing.
My favorite thing in the world
Being “a part of the in crowd” sounds nauseating to me. Events that completely and absurdly price out normal fans / people and cater only to the super wealthy are shit events. Full stop.
I don’t know about that. I used to get free tix to Yankees games when the Tigers were in town. Sitting 3 rows behind the dugout is pretty nice. Having a waitress that brings you anything you want (from made-to-order milkshakes to lobster tails and almost anything you can imagine in between) is pretty nice. Drinks on a corporate card is (was) pretty nice.
I’m not saying that I’d shell out $2k/seat to go to a game in that way, but the experience itself is pretty friggin’ sweet. Same goes for the center ice/courtside seats I’d get at MSG.
The only downside is that you are always on TV/the scoreboard screen. That gets old after a while, lol.
Sitting in a box or behind the glass at a hockey game (etc) are awesome experiences, but you can still usually pay for normal seats at attainable prices if you wish, even at Yankee Stadium or the Garden (MSG).
I don’t think that’s what the person meant.
“Events that completely and absurdly price out normal fans / people and cater only to the super wealthy are shit events”
This sounds more like “gimme all your money to get in the door or gtfo”.
It’s kinda the same thing. You can watch the Miami race from a parking deck, or from a team suite. You can go to the Derby and stand in a mud pit in the infield, or you can be in a box on the start/finish line drinking $5k Woodford mint juleps.
I guess maybe something like skipping the line at Lavo back in the day vs. waiting for hours to get turned away might be more apt to that attitude. Let me assure you, though, skipping the line at Lavo on Cinco de Mayo was pretty fun, as well. 😉
Maybe I’m projecting, but I read the OP as being a criticism about events that have become something for people who are there to show off wealth for an audience that doesn’t notice them because they’re too busy trying to get noticed themselves—think influencers and their aspirations—instead of event fans. It’s not about the subject of the event or the relative available accommodations or perks of a tiered ticket system because the (in this case) racing is incidental and the attendees don’t really care about anything but celebrating shallow, consumerist hedonism. When a place gets infested by such parasites, it’s no longer fun for the few remaining fans who can still afford to attend (unfortunately, this kind of thing isn’t just happening to sporting or concert events, but tourist kinds of places, as well). While I had been annoyed by such people before on trips, the first and last time I went to the Pebble Beach concours (2000) is when it really annoyed me to the point where I found it completely unenjoyable and that was well before social media and the narcissistic explosion we’ve experienced since. To conclude on a positive note, the Monterey Historics and Concorso Italiano that same year were great, being filled with down-to-earth people.
I think you might be looking too deep into it
You can’t go to Pebble Beach and expect for Frito-Lay hand soap(unless they are a sponsor), in the same way wouldn’t go to Monaco and eat Burger King the whole time. In the same way you don’t go to a demolition derby on the outskirts of Reno and expect to buy a Duke Basketball jersey.
Choose your own adventure stuff, and don’t expect it to cater to you. That’s not how any of it works. None of this is a secret.
I’m not shitting on any of it, but…come on, lol.
Did you have fun or not? If not, don’t do it again. Who cares if the rest of the gen pop in attendance actually know the significance to you? Was it fun?
Pretty easy stuff. But, you don’t know if you don’t do it, which, major props for tasting the menu 🙂
Oi, it’s not the food or fancy treatments and you’re way off on where you seem to assume I fall on my preferences for quality of food and amenities even though it seems quite clear from what I wrote that I have no problem with box seats or whatever else it is you’re hung up on about and that my complaint is about the quality of the people who are there. Do you think the Concorso Italiano was a local tractor pull? I talked at fair length to Horacio Pagani over the Zonda C12 that was there and I didn’t even know who he was until I saw an interview with him after, I just thought he was a very knowledgeable and enthusiastic rep. I talked to a guy who put NOS in his Espada and a number of other cool individuals. The Monterey Historics was likewise full of real, knowledgeable, and friendly people who were there because they love cars. Pebble Beach was infested with proto-influencers just there to be seen. There was a palpable sense of shallowness and insecurity that practically hung in the air. The cars and the setting deserved better.
I did get an email from a reader who said their tickets haven’t gone up in price since they first bought them, so that’s cool!
I loved your article. Miami F1 is the Met Gala of auto sports.
Awwww thank you : )
Random Met Gala factoid –
Spike Lee was on the board for that event but said he couldn’t watch the Knicks playoff game because there were no TVs and he didn’t know how to get it on his phone.
Fraudulent.
At least Met Gala benefits The Metropolitan Museum.
F1 is a pure for-profit operation.
I grew up with Miami Vice and Don Johnson, Ferraris and drugs. A lot of drugs. Not me ; in the TV show. That’s well over 40 years ago. Not sure why people think Miami magically has changed since then.
Anyways – F1 is unfortunately being milked and marketed for the rich. Just like any other large sporting event. From world cup soccer, tennis, NFL ; everything is expensive and has less and less to do with the actual sport.
If you like racing, with honest people, you should go to the local tracks where enthusiasts drive their own car with $1000 upgrades on them to barely make the 10 laps of the ‘race’, on tires which should have been replaced 3 races ago and wearing their racesuit full with oil stains and fake advertising so it doesn’t look that ‘sad’ in the eyes of the 3 visitors which they brought to the track themselves.
There you see fair racing, with spectacular crashes, wins and DNFs.
While I love F1, for the sheer competence of the drivers (Verstappen, Norris, Piastri, Antonelli, Hamilton etc etc) and the pinnacle of engineering to squeeze another 5 milliseconds of performance out of a race-vehicle (cannot call it a car) – it is amazing – it is ultimately a show of who has the most money, who wants to throw that money at a wall and hopes it will stick. Ergo Aston Martin – the Stroll family for example.
Still it is fascinating to see Mercedes, Red Bull, McLaren, Ferrari and others trying to win a deepfly flawed race format where the bottom teams are there to ‘fill the grid’ while the actual competion is 85% about the top 4 teams.
You have to accept the show around F1. You don’t have to be part of that. I am happily watching F1 from home and am barely touched by the decadent behavior of the few people who had the money to buy a Lamborghini or Rolls Royce AND put glitter film on it. I wouldn’t do it, but then again, I also am not part of that world.
Live and let live I’d say.
Yeah, F1 is very much a popularity thing right now. People like to be seen there. It’s so funny, because you couldn’t beg Americans to go 10 years ago
F1 has gone through the Liberty Media Transition Phase Method System.
As in, it has been commercialized AND for some reasons, cars are more cool now than they were before. So people don’t mind seeing people driving in cars worth more than 4 houses for ye average family, cars who’ll depreciate about 1 house per 2 years, but nobody gives a F because of all the excess visible on Youtube, Facebook, Instagram and Tiktok.
In a way the current state of F1 is a mirror of our society, especially in the US. Other tracks are more ‘normal’, less celebrities, less grandeur, more focus on the actual race, drivers.
But those pre-race ‘victory laps’ of the drivers… Is that really necessary? Do we really have to show Hamilton or Verstappen or Stroll to the people at the track driving around in LEGO cars or classics or a tour bus ? I am fairly sure no driver really enjoys that, but the image building, the hype train … F1 wants it. It wants to elevate the drivers to celebrity status, while, indeed, 10 years ago, people would not have been able to recognize any F1 driver who hasn’t been world champion for at least 5 times, in a row.
But… better this way, perhaps, than some other sports which have been buried under a deafening silence. I’m sure the hype will normalize eventually and then the celebrities will go to the next ‘big thing’ to be seen there.
I already know Miami wouldn’t be my thing but some of it seems to have some appeal anyway.
Would love to see more F1 content on The Autopian! With the popularity of the sport in the US, I think it would be worthwhile to invest in this type of content. (I selflessly volunteer).
The Autopian in general seems to have a deft touch and a balanced approach to subjects which is somewhat lacking in F1 spaces.
I would particularly look forward to the Autopian’s comment culture for F1 since it seems impossible to have a decent conversation before mud-slinging begins.
Thank you, Alanis! Hope you had a nice time. I do love F1 but it seems more and more that you have to put some money down for a good experience these days. Or, I’m getting old and have no tolerance for GA anymore.
Aw hi! Thank you so much for reading! I’m glad you enjoyed!
I lived in Miami for almost a decade and got out after my son was born. It’s a place to make kids, not to raise them.
I can count on one hand the number of people I know who were born and raised there that I’d genuinely call good human beings.
In 2019, we were in a car accident. Our Uber ran a red light and got T-boned at an intersection in Little Havana, with businesses on all four corners. Nobody offered help. When we asked, “What’s the address?” so we could tell the ambulance, they just pointed and laughed.
That moment told me everything I needed to know.
Still… at times I do miss the absurdity of that city. And the coffee culture.
Ditto for NYC.
Not sure that’s fair, people help all the time here. It’s not popular to publicize because NYC=warzone in the current political climate but that’s highly overblown.
Having said that, the NYC resting F-off face is real. Sometimes it’s your only protection against the crazies.
I’ll have to try some coffee next time I’m in town!
As shocking as it is, Miami’s not really a “bougie coffee” city. Sure, you can get your $7 single-origin pour-over, but the real coffee culture there cuts across every class.
Hit up a ventanita with friends, grab a cortado, and order a colada with a stack of little plastic shot glasses to pass around. Pair it with a pastelillo de queso, an empanada, or a few croquetas if you know what’s good.
And both Versailles and La Carreta are for tourists (although the bakery side stays open late enough to help burn the midnight oil). My personal preference is Tinta y Café in Coral Gables.
As an East Coast Elite™ who grew up on Stewart, Lauda, and Hunt, I am extremely comfortable being a fan of NASCAR.
I looooove NASCAR
Summed it up well Miami and Nashville have turned into Vegas with Austin on its way. I’ve found the F1 crowd an acquired taste that most normal people don’t want to acquire.
You’re so right! Very flashy
This is like a guide book telling me all the reasons I don’t want to go to Miami.
Hahahahahahahaha I DID say I’m not a Miami person
I think whenever F1 comes to a city, it takes the opulence level up a notch or 5. I go to Montreal often, for F1 and also non-F1 weekends. The city is mostly low-key outside of F1, but from that Friday to Sunday when F1 is in town, it gets taken up a notch or two. I often extend my stay to the week right after F1, totally different city and vibe. Even with F1 in town, it is still nothing compared to a normal weekend in Vegas, or Miami.
I haven’t been to Miami for F1, but have been there for a bachelor party, and you know it was perfectly fine, a lot more low key than I expected.
Miami being low-key, I must have gone to a different city by mistake thinking it was Miami right? I think each person is different, Miami, Vegas, or even LA and NY isn’t for everyone. Some folks like smaller cities, some like the lights and flashiness. I think we can all enjoy what we like without putting the other down.
Very interesting. I can see it. Every time I’m in Miami, it’s super loud. And I don’t think I put anyone down — I just wait it’s not me!
“The Miami GP Isn’t Just About Racing — It’s About Perceived Opulence“
Well I’m out *sips beer*…
Hahahahahahaha honestly same
That does it, I’m buying your book.
Awwwwww wow thank you so much
Miami sounds horrific.
This was my thought as well – nothing Alanis described/photographed is anything I have any interest in.
It is fun for learning about other parts of the world/genres of entertainment though
That’s fair. Still, it doesn’t seem like my cup of tea.
But also expensive, what a bonus.
dont forget the 90% humidity and old people
I think that’s why F-1 never really worked here in Indiana. We had the racing tradition but not the glamor. They had to commute (via helicopter of course) to Chicago to find hotels of suitable ambience.
On tv the crowd in Miami looked quite strong, even in year four so it’s working for them.
I’m still sad MotoGP stopped going to Indy. From my understanding attendance was solid up until they called it quits; maybe the hosting fee was too high, I don’t know. I don’t like COTA for bikes, it’s clearly 95% designed for F1.
I’m sad as well. I’m an Indy native that grew up just outside Speedway, and had the joy of going to the GP multiple times. It was always a blast.
Separate but related note: I moved to Chicagoland a decade ago, and when I’m back home in Indy visiting, I LOVE visiting downtown Speedway now. They really revitalized that area.
I went to the F1 at Indy in 2000 and 2002 and it was great. Exactly the opposite of this Miami thing.
Wandering around the infield during practice and qualifying, with all the Europeans going on about how inexpensive everything was.
Even the Porsche Cup Demolition Derby support race was fun.
The second time we stayed in the same motel as the Minardi team.
Honestly yeah. Indiana is so normal
Vegas and LA have the feel of artificiality to them that I don’t like at all. Miami always seemed the same, so I never visited despite so many shows I’ve liked taking place there (or at least having some connection to it in the case of Justified). Thing is, though, as much as I detest such places, I’ve found them inspiring. I first started writing after driving cross country in 2000 and, of all the things I saw, the part that kicked it all off was seeing someone lying alongside the street in a trashy, off-strip part of Vegas. I saw it as an opening scene, the dark reality behind the glitz that would reflect a greater theme of violence and depravity underneath society’s veil of civility, but that’s how I was back then. I just finished off a trilogy about three animal friends getting pulled into adventures and they were a lot more fun to write, plus it’s nice to put out something that (older) kids can read, never mind adults that I don’t want to drive away. While it’s sometimes good for personal development to be a bit uncomfortable, the best part to me is the greater appreciation of the ordinary comforts when it’s over.
I live in Las Vegas, and yes, it’s the backdrop for all the weirdness. And from what I’ve gathered, the entire point of F1 in Vegas is the backdrop, not the race itself.
They must be doing okay, because they built a 10+ acre facility a couple blocks off The Strip that lies fallow for 50 weeks per year.
Come on, ocean. You’re so close. Miami is almost yours.
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I heard Crypto Bros can’t swim either
Veeeery slowly but the Atlantic is working on it.
Place is likely to become unviable within a couple decades —once you can’t make the water roll towards the sea to take the shit away—, definitely before the end of the century.
Be careful what you wish for. They type of people that make Miami as insufferable as it is won’t magically drown. They might even move to where you live. Keep them sequestered!
Spot on. Imagine Florida Men and new-money Miamers spreading all over the southeast…
Too late.
“I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!”
I thought that was funny when I was a kid. Grandpa Simpson hits like a ton of bricks now that Im 41
I’m 48, standing here with an onion in my belt, as was the style of the day.
And it’s weird how it just suddenly happens around the early 40s out of nowhere, too.
I think it’s less trends/aging with the specific Miami subculture I’m referencing here and more personality type. All ages participate in this subculture
Absolutely! “Be Excellent to each other” will always be cool, and ageless. I haven’t been to Miami in 25 years, and even back then, felt alt-universe.
When Vampire Weekend was touring a few years back I had the choice of seeing them in Miami, which is about two hours away, or St. Augustine which is about a six hour drive. Without a second’s hesitation I chose St. Augustine. Fuck Miami.
Edit: When VW toured last year for the new album, they kept St. Augustine but dropped Miami from their Florida dates. Apparently they felt the same.
F1 is for the oligarchs across the planet. Miami is the new Sochi.
Ouch…
I’ve been to Miami once.
After a tour of Vizcaya (It’s a mini-Hearst Castle) with my parents and other cruise friends (We were departing from FLL the next day) I asked our driver to take us to a the best place in Miami for Cubanos for a late lunch.
So he pulled up to Manny’s on South Beach, and when the door was opened we were greeted by a tall woman with a beehive in a cat-suit and a slender man with nappy hair and all gold teeth.
I said “Yes – This is the right place.”
And when they asked if our group wanted to be seated indoors or outdoors – I said outdoors, as I had caught a glimpse of a couple indoors who were either dancing on the bar or having sex, so I positioned Mother to have her back to the door and face the street…
From my perspective – – You had a normal Miami weekend that just happened to be when the F1 race occurred.
Vizcaya is the mansion in Ace Ventura.
Had I been drinking from the toilet, I’d be a dead man.
I can’t tell if you had fun.
I think that’s how a lot of folks would describe a weekend in Miami.
I have never envied anyone who tells me they’re taking a vacation to Florida
Fort Meyers used to be nice, or at least was the one time we went for a wedding, but apparently it’s gone corporate with construction all over?
I honestly had the best time