Terry's Travel: South Beach Miami

Thursday, January 1, 2015

South Beach Miami

The Art Deco District was designated in 1979

The area contains over 950 historic buildings

Always amazing at night with the neon lights

The area takes in over 5,700 acres

South Beach is nicknamed SoBe

Population may surprise you.......just under 40,000

A hurricane in 1926 destroyed most of the area

Atlantic Ocean here and the Biscayne Bay to the left of South Beach

South Beach started as farmland in the 1870s, then in the early 1900s some local businessmen acquired the land to build single family homes

Once the bridge was constructed to connect it to the mainland .......the land boom began!

After the Pearl Harbor attack the Army Air Corps took command over Miami Beach

To protect the Art Deco buildings from developers a group of activists formed a register of Historic Places

One of the colorful Lifeguard Stations part of Lummus Park

Ocean Drive is the street you want to be seen on in SoBe lol

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Key Tips for Travel

1) Passports; always have two copies with one left at home with a relative/friend and the other being stowed safely within your luggage. If your passport is ever lost or stolen take your copy to your consulate so they can trace the number and cancel the original.....then issue you a new one. Finally also have the contact info of your nearest consulate to where you will be traveling. 2) Call your Credit Card Companies and tell them to where you are traveling so they do not suspend your plastic on the suspicion of fraud. 3) Make sure you have enough coverage with your medical insurance. 4) If bringing a cell phone think ahead and get a service plan for your voice, text and data as you do not need to arrive home to a nasty phone bill for roaming charges. 5) Do not announce to the world via social networks you are traveling to alert some unwanted visitors to your home. 6) Leaving on the first plane in the morning will take the odds of delays out of the equation and with connecting flights please allow at least one hour apart 7) Always travel with two credit cards and use one for the car rental/hotel as they put extra charges on (to be dropped after) as it "ties" up your plastic for this period of time.