Hanging Out With Lee Bank
January 15th, 2001
@ South Beach, FL
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All Photos © 2001 Ting Vogel
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We made our noon checkout (barely!), and proceeded
to get lost trying to find the airport Ramada in Fort Lauderdale.
The web gave us an exit number which did not exist! Finally after
looping around 3 times, we found it! After dropping our stuff off,
we continued on our way to Miami. Fighting hunger pangs and grumpy
stomaches, we stopped off at a Wendy's in a run-down seedy Miami neighborhood.
(Randy knows that it is more dangerous not to feed me!) And isn't
the ability to eat in seedy neighborhoods the reason I took up Martial
Arts? Hmmm?
We drove down to South Beach in our rented
Toyota Camry. Lee could not fit all of us in his Porsche 911.
Darn thing about sports cars, but the titanium blue color does look nice.
We stopped by the "Goddess" boutique run by Sandra, a friend of Lee's.
She is a beautiful Brazilian woman with a style that is wholly South Beach.
Lee invited her to dinner. Just as we left the boutique, it started
to pour, but the inpromptu storm only lasted five minutes. Afterwards,
we took a walk along the beach front promenade.
We had to head back to Lee's for a conference
call (Lee's in Sales). The night view from his place was splendid.
The call took an hour. Afterwards, we went back to pick up Sandra
for dinner at an Indian place called Shiva that we passed earlier.
The waiter who had come out before in sweats to entice us to eat there
is now dressed in a waitsuit with his hair slicked back. The food
was scrumptious!
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We passed by this ship on the way to Lee's
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Across the bridge is a guard shed.
They waved us in without asking.
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View from Lee's second-floor apartment
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Randy in front of Lee's music rack
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Lee did not want me to take his picture
before his shower, but the digital camera is not capable of scratch-and-sniff
pictures yet - good thing!
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Here's Lee fresh out of the shower and
ready to have his picture taken!
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Coconut Palm Tree in Lee's Backyard
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The ship's name is Ecstasy
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We passed by this splendid sandcastle
in our walk.
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The details were so intricate that you
can almost hear the sound of a battle waging.
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I tried in vain to find a maiden in distress
looking out a castle window. Guess it still needs some work.
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A unicorn lies to one side, asleep, I
would like to think, although death does throw a romantic veil over the
scene in a gothic sort of way.
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Night view of South Beach from Lee's
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