Although my parents have vivid memories of going to Palm Beach when I was a kid, for me at least I don’t really have any memories. Palm Beach was a big deal even back in the early 70’s and an even bigger deal now that President Trump’s Mara-a-lago residence is there. And since I like to visit Presidential locations when I travel Mom and I took my one non working day on the visit and went to Palm Beach. Early Sunday morning by the way is a nice time to go if you want to avoid the crowds and we got to see everything I wanted before the day got to hot.

First off we stopped at the Breakers which is a historical hotel that I do vaguely remember going to as a kid. Mom wanted to show me the renovation and I was very impressed by the Italian designs and in particular the beautiful ceilings. We also went into a really cool gift store and had an ice tea and a croissant in the beautiful courtyard. It was really nice.

The one downside of the breakers which I do remember is that they don’t have a very good beach as it is largely rocky. My grandmother Pat, never one for fancy, used to turn up her nose at the expense because her beach was better than there’s. That is 100% true by the way and my Grandparents made extra money by flipping houses back before that was even a thing. For her it was 100% about location and those instincts served her very well. Anyways it was nice and I did enjoy the gift shops, but I don’t feel the need to stay there anytime soon.

After that we drove down to Mar-a-lago, which it turns out is the former home of Emily Post. It is on the point and has wonderful views of the ocean but we couldn’t see much and of course security was everywhere. We did see the large Presidential flag at 1/2 mast and got a really good view of the guest beach houses which are right on the water. Honestly I always thought it was on a golf course but that location is a few minutes away. It is much smaller piece of property than I thought it would be though in all fairness it is a prime piece of real estate. I snapped a couple of pictures from the car sorry they aren’t very good.

Afterwards I thought we were done but Mom really wanted to go to Worth Avenue. According to Mom, this is the second richest shopping district in the US after Rodeo Dr and has some really cool courtyards and stores. It was getting pretty hot but I said I would check it out if we could walk in the shade and I will say the courtyards are pretty cool. I didn’t care much about the shops (except for Tiffany’s and a cool rare book store) but the courtyards were nice.

Many of the shops and restaurants were closed but we shared a pizza (which was super pricey but delicious) in a little outdoor cafe and then headed back. If you just want to stroll around I actually recommend Sunday morning because its a cramped space and it was nice hardly anyone was there. Plus parking was a $15 flat rate versus the usual $8 per hour.

I had a lovely time with Mom and the only thing that went wrong was on the penultimate day I got some sand in my eye and scratched it. Thankfully my Mom is a retired Nurse practitioner and she had all the stuff I needed to fix me it. I could have lived about that last bit though but other than that I had a wonderful time and am really looking forward to going back. I will say this and many of you who know me will be surprised, I could see myself living on Singer Island at some point. But I can’t really see Lee living there so not sure that will ever happen but I really liked it. Speaking of Lee I really owe you guys an updated on how all of that is going, and I promise I will try to write something up. The situation remains very fluid but I will do the best I can in the next post.

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