[11.08.2008] Bonita Springs is a beach community that neighbors the bustle and hype of Naples Florida and Fort Myers Beach in southwest Florida. It is a great alternative to the more up-scale and hurried pace of the resort communities that surround it. Besides the Grayhound Dog Track, its singular attraction is its calm waters and shell filed white sand beaches. However, for nature lovers there is the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary [more]

[03.08.2008] Our local South Florida favorite and the constant best place to send our friends and visitors in the Ft. Lauderdale area less than an hour by car from Miami. This is a unique place to enjoy a great variety of butterflies in a tropical garden setting. It also has some great birds that you can see right up close. So not only do you have the typical Florida experience of having parrots sit on your shoulders, but [more]

[16.06.2008] Art Deco seems always to have been associated with Miami Beach, Florida. But, until we went on the Miami Design Preservation Leagues walking tour in South Beach, I never appreciated what it was all about. Its US version is known as Streamline Moderne with its aerodynamic shapes, the relief ornamentation featuring whimsical flora, fauna and the ocean-liner motifs reinforce the image of Miami Beach as a seaside re [more]