Where the boys are" is still there, just a few miles north of the original setting in Fort Lauderdale, FL. up A1A. We discovered the area, Lauderdale By The Sea, FL inadvertently about seven years ago when we followed the sun south from a chilly spring in Hilton Head Island, SC. You can say how "chilly" is it in HHI during March, but after traveling and living in Belize and Cancun, MX, when the temperature is in the 50's, it seems like the wind chill on a Indiana farm in January. My Russian girlfriend, Mira and I had headed south looking for South Beach, Miami and the bronzed boys of her internet fantasies and the topless dreams of my youth. We were both disappointed in the results of our non-internet search as the guys tended to have more belly fat than belly muscles and my girlfriend easily surpassed anything on the beach or in the clubs at night.
After three days and nights chasing the "good life" we headed north to visit Fort Lauderdale, where the beach party movies of my long ago youth had helped frame a vision of life so unlike any reality it would qualify today to be a MTV reality show. We ended up exiting I-95 a couple of exits north of Los Olas, the main avenue into Fort Lauderdale downtown, not realizing our mistake we headed east to the beach and found a conclave of small, charming beach hotels and motels. It was just like the movies only without Annette, Frankie or the beach party bingo, but beautiful white sand beaches, friendly hotel staff and great people had us believing we had indeed landed in a time warp, back into the movie sets of the 60's.
We found a great little resort, Captain's Quarters Beach Resort with a picturesque pool and deck and a room looking out over the pool onto the calm, blue waters of the Gulf Stream. My only disappointment was I didn't have the Beach Boys on my Walkman (it was a few years before iPods). After a day on the beach, shopping and dining, we spent the evening relaxing outside our room as the day melted into night and we, in some ways mourned the passage of the early, easier times, but the next morning our elation and spirits rose again with the sun and another day of living life in the 60's. Today, we live and work in Lauderdale By The Sea sharing the experience with our guests, although today life has sped up a little with computers, iPods and the internet, but the small hotels/ resorts remain on this little stretch of beach just north of the "Real Life" in Fort Lauderdale and Miami.
There aren't many beach boys any more, although I guess the many windsurfers on the waves everyday would qualify as today's beach boy and there is certainly no singing Annette causing the boys to stare, although my teenage daughter and her mother, that same Russian girl turn heads as they walk the beach, but it is a great place to come to relax, slow down and enjoy life at a simpler pace and in a safer place. Thinking about where to "escape" and unwind look us up at Captain's Quarters Beach Resort to reminisce and remember when we were young, strong and filled with dreams. You can still dream and here it just seems right.
After three days and nights chasing the "good life" we headed north to visit Fort Lauderdale, where the beach party movies of my long ago youth had helped frame a vision of life so unlike any reality it would qualify today to be a MTV reality show. We ended up exiting I-95 a couple of exits north of Los Olas, the main avenue into Fort Lauderdale downtown, not realizing our mistake we headed east to the beach and found a conclave of small, charming beach hotels and motels. It was just like the movies only without Annette, Frankie or the beach party bingo, but beautiful white sand beaches, friendly hotel staff and great people had us believing we had indeed landed in a time warp, back into the movie sets of the 60's.
We found a great little resort, Captain's Quarters Beach Resort with a picturesque pool and deck and a room looking out over the pool onto the calm, blue waters of the Gulf Stream. My only disappointment was I didn't have the Beach Boys on my Walkman (it was a few years before iPods). After a day on the beach, shopping and dining, we spent the evening relaxing outside our room as the day melted into night and we, in some ways mourned the passage of the early, easier times, but the next morning our elation and spirits rose again with the sun and another day of living life in the 60's. Today, we live and work in Lauderdale By The Sea sharing the experience with our guests, although today life has sped up a little with computers, iPods and the internet, but the small hotels/ resorts remain on this little stretch of beach just north of the "Real Life" in Fort Lauderdale and Miami.
There aren't many beach boys any more, although I guess the many windsurfers on the waves everyday would qualify as today's beach boy and there is certainly no singing Annette causing the boys to stare, although my teenage daughter and her mother, that same Russian girl turn heads as they walk the beach, but it is a great place to come to relax, slow down and enjoy life at a simpler pace and in a safer place. Thinking about where to "escape" and unwind look us up at Captain's Quarters Beach Resort to reminisce and remember when we were young, strong and filled with dreams. You can still dream and here it just seems right.
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