When I was a child, we regularly visited Miami to see family and friends. Normally we’d go down during the summer months and boy was it hot and humid. We’d spend a lot of time in South Beach and Lummus Park. Back then it wasn’t a ritzy place to stay. In fact, at one point we stopped staying there since the area had gotten so rundown.
Flash forward twenty years and for a time we’d take my daughter there for spring break vacations. It was our way of exposing her to the Cuban culture we didn’t have where we were living and we always enjoyed going. We’d hang out on the beach, but also make time to visit Lincoln Road, Little Havana, or go to the Miami Seaquarium which was one of my favorite places from when I was a child.
My memories of those areas helped shape many of the scenes in South Beach Love.
This is a photo from one of my last trips to South Beach which was actually for a work conference. I was lucky enough to stay in the fabulous Loew’s Hotel, but we still made it a point to go to Lincoln Road and Little Havana. The conference even had an event at Monkey Jungle which was also a childhood favorite.
