Where to go, and when · with the homework done
KEY WEST · SAFETY · MILE MARKER 0 You’ve already picked the island. So the useful question is not whether to come, but what genuinely goes wrong at the end of a 113-mile chain of bridges, where the road stops at Mile Marker 0 on the corner of Whitehead and Fleming, and a sign points … Read more
MIAMI · THE SAFETY BRIEF · MIAMI-DADE COUNTY Miami arrives with a reputation attached, and most of it is about crime. The hazards that send visitors home early are duller and more physical: an Atlantic that pulls sideways when the surf is up, a March enforcement plan in Miami Beach that tows non-resident cars at … Read more
ST. AUGUSTINE · THE THREE-DAY PLAN · EASTERN TIME St. Augustine hands a visitor two federally run Spanish forts, a working lighthouse tower from 1874 and a stretch of Atlantic beach, all inside a short driving radius. The National Park Service dates the town’s founding to 1565 and calls the Castillo de San Marcos the … Read more
KEY WEST · THE THREE-DAY PLAN · MILE MARKER 0 The end of US-1 has a way of scrambling plans. Three days is what most visitors give Key West, and three days works on one condition: you decide before you arrive which of them belongs to the 8 a.m. boat heading west, and which two … Read more
MIAMI · THE THREE-DAY PLAN · 3 DAYS · 2 CITIES Three days is the length most people give Miami, and it works once you stop treating the place as one city. The City of Miami counted 442,241 residents at the 2020 census. Miami Beach counted 82,890, and it sits on its own barrier islands … Read more
ST. AUGUSTINE · FLORIDA · 29.9° N St. Augustine sells itself in coquina and shade: a Spanish fort on the bayfront, narrow colonial lanes off St. George Street, and Atlantic beach across the Bridge of Lions. What it does not sell is a single season. The town at 65°F in January and the town at … Read more
