miami again / apr 2007

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Miami2 17-04-2007 23:41

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shuttle bus to miami international airport.
i see his knee bleeding
his wife takes a napkin and cleanses it from the dripping blood
he looks like he is 69
she looks like she is 64 - maybe.
some would say that she used to be good looking -
but can't she be just good looking now -

they own a condo in key largo. a house and horses in west virginia.
splitting the time.

they got a scuba certification.
70 dives in the past year.

i look at them and think i wish i can be like that when i reach that age,

i ask how deep they go if they just use air or they dive with nitrox.

shipwrecks and stuff - nitrox certification.
too bad they are not on our same flight.
back to new york.
american airlines - bring your own food - crappy snacks - 3 dollars apop.
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i ride a cruiser bike from south beach to criteria studios -
15 miles northwest on the mainland - 149 and w dixie -.

just after an hour swimming in the ocean. 7ft waves - no one allowed without fins or a board.
they told me in hawaii it is different, the lifeguard dont worry so much.
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i ride up us 1 / biscayne -
to 2nd avenue -
i see a lot of stores painted by serge -
the haitian artist -
i stop and take a picture of the storefronts i like.
there is a strip of cheap motels with their signs damaged by the hurricane.
the sun is too low on the west side - the wrong side -
so i will have to do it some other time.

there is a restaurant with bob marley and haile selassie painted on the wall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haile_Selassie_I_of_Ethiopia

i get a gatorade and have to explain why i am taking the picture of their restaurant.

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i spend many days in a recording studio
lots of ac and no windows - it could be anywhere -
the music is great
but i sometimes miss the nature outside.
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when i go to the beach the waves are beautiful
i run into paulo -
hit on the brow by someone else's board.
no stitches - just bandage and krazy glue.

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a marine
with a malt liquor can in his hand
a marine's always a marine -
so they say
i always see a marine with booze in his hand and faded tattooos on his arm
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i swim to the buoy before sunset before driving to the airport to catch a plane to nyc.

a week before i was in montreal quebec
it was beautiful and it was freezing
miami and montreal
as far as you can get from the average united states east coast average city.