T is 4 Travel: 2016

(photo from here)

see

Ocean Drive’s Art Deco hotels
Collins Avenue to tour the lobbies and bars of classic Miami hotels like the Delano with its dark, intimate corners and, if you desire a more boisterous scene, the vast, blue-hued Fontainebleau. (via 36 hours in Miami Beach)
public beaches

Lummus Park (1701 Collins Avenue; info)(Ocean Drive between Fifth and 15th streets)

Art Deco supermarket (1435 Washington Ave) info
Art Deco Welcome Center (1001 Ocean Drive; info) (Ninety-minute walking tours of the district depart from the Art Deco Welcome Center each day at 10:30 a.m. (there’s an additional tour on Thursdays at 6:30 p.m.) and include stops at hotels and restaurants, and other commercial buildings ($20).) If you want to go at your own pace, self-guided audio-tours are available ($15). (via 36 hours in Miami Beach) info

Art Deco walking tour (info)
MiMo tour (1st Saturdays, info)

Bass Museum of Art (2100 Collins Ave) Bass Museum of Art ($8) where visitors will find more than 500 years of paintings and sculpture by Rubens, Botticelli and Ghirlandaio. Open Sat and Sun 10am to 6pm
Wolfsonian-Florida International University Museum (1001 Washington Avenue, info) ($7), which houses objects from the Industrial Revolution to the end of World War II. Sat 10am-6pm Sun noon-6pm
Miami’s Wynwood Arts District (2516 NW 2nd Ave, Miami, FL 33127) Graffiti via afar info
Juvia (1111 Lincoln Road, info) Venture away from kitschy Ocean Drive for a different view of the city from the penthouse of Juvia, a 10,000-square-foot indoor-outdoor restaurant and bar. The restaurant serves Japanese, French and Peruvian food as varied as salmon nashi and roasted chicken vadouvan, but the view is the real showstopper. Juvia won a 2013 James Beard Foundation award for outstanding restaurant design (over 75 seats), and from its roof, the moon over Miami can seem almost close enough to touch.)
New World Center, (500 17th Street, info) which was designed by Frank Gehry. New World Symphony, an orchestral academy founded by the conductor Michael Tilson Thomas.
Española Way (info) (a stretch of shops and restaurants with Spanish-colonial architecture as reinterpreted in 1925 (also delightful at night)
Miami Beach Botanical Garden (2000 Convention Center Drive, info)
Perez Art Museum (1103 Biscayne Blvd, Miami; info) Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron designed the stunning 120,000-square-foot building on Biscayne Bay; the collection focuses on contemporary artists like Olafur Eliasson via Food and Wine
Elastika by Zaha Hadid at the Moore Building (4040 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami; info) “Zaha Hadid was the recipient of Design Miami’s first Designer of the Year award in 2005. I commissioned her to design Elastika, an installation for the atrium of the Moore Building. The white sculpture is a futuristic contrast to its art deco surroundings.” via afar

savor

Yardbird Southern Table & Bar (1600 Lenox Ave, via 36 hours in Miami Beach) “I experienced the highlight of my bourbon-drinking life here: Makers 46 with a cinnamon water wash. I also loved the hot and spicy watermelon and Tabasco syrup that they put on their Yardbird Special.” via afar

Tongue & Cheek (431 Washington Ave, via 36 hours in Miami Beach)
Altamare (1244 Lincoln Rd, via 36 hours in Miami Beach)
YUCA (via 36 hours in Miami Beach)
SushiSamba (600 Lincoln Rd, "an irresistible plate of rock shrimp tempura ($17) and specialty rolls like the Ezo (salmon, asparagus, onion, chives, sesame, tempura flakes and wasabi mayonnaise; $13") (via 36 hours in Miami Beach)
News Cafe (800 Ocean Drive; info)(a restaurant, bar and newsstand open 24 hours. Its halcyon days are gone, but the tables still fill up with tourists and a smattering of locals thanks to the reasonably affordable prices, full breakfast menu and prime people-watching location near the beach. The breakfast special (two eggs with fries; bacon, ham, sausage or turkey sausage; juice, coffee or tea; and bread) is $10.50. French toast, pancakes or Belgian waffles are $7.75.) info
BLT Steak at the Betsy Hotel (1440 Ocean Drive, info)(For a more sophisticated brunch (beginning at 11:30 a.m.) Dine indoors or out on the porch from a menu that goes beyond the basics: almond brioche French toast with cinnamon-caramelized bananas ($14), buttermilk pancakes with blueberries and orange blossom water syrup ($12), and the BLT Popover, an interpretation of eggs Benedict with béchamel and Gruyère ($14).) (via 36 hours in Miami Beach) info
Oh! Mexico (1440 Washington Ave, margaritas and chips at Oh! Mexico in Española Way hit the spot)
Lure Fishbar (1601 Collins Avenue, Loews Miami Beach Hotel, info) This New York City raw bar import, in the Loews Miami Beach Hotel, has a swanky, yacht-inspired design. The burger with caramelized onion and bacon jam and American cheese might seem out of place on the seafood-heavy menu, but it's a four-time winner of the New York City Wine & Food Festival Burger Bash. via Food and Wine
Michael Mina 74 (4441 Collins Avenue, Fontainebleau Miami Beach, info) The Fontainebleau Miami Beach, home to this new outpost from San Francisco chef Michael Mina, recently bought a 43-foot Torres commercial fishing boat. The three-person crew haul in more than 800 pounds of seafood daily, then transfer their live catch to "Water World"—a series of saltwater tanks beneath the 20-acre resort. Mina uses the superfresh stone crab and spiny lobster on his tableside shellfish cart. via Food and Wine
Lorenzo (1776 Collins Avenue, The Redbury South Beach, info) Chicago chef Tony Mantuano runs the Italian restaurant, Lorenzo, adding Florida wild boar to his famous gnocchi via Food and Wine
jugoFresh (1020 Alton Road (inside Whole Foods) also here and here, info) “There’s a little place on South Beach that’s a juice bar. They have great juice combinations like cucumber, pineapple and ginger. Good quality. Nice decor.” via Food and Wine
El Mago de las Fritas (5828 SW 8th Street, Miami) “A frita is a Cuban burger that has ground chorizo in with the beef. It’s usually on a Cuban roll with shoestring potatoes on top. This place is known for the frita burger.” The restaurant’s name translates to the “Wizard of the Cuban Hamburger.” via Food and Wine
La Camaronera (1952 W. Flagler Street, Miami; info) “Miami’s great chef Michelle Bernstein took me to this restaurant-fish market. We stood at a counter top snacking on fresh caught, just-fried shrimp and homemade tartar sauce. It was one of the most perfect meals I could ever imagine.” via afar
Joe's Stone Crab (11 Washington Avenue, info) “I loved the perfect tart and sweet, crunchy fried green tomatoes with special sauce so much that we went twice for lunch over the weekend. And who can argue with the jumbo stone crab claws.” via afar
Puerta Sagua (700 Collins Ave., info) Wanting to try some authentic and reasonably-priced Cuban food, we found ourselves at Puerto Sagua, a bustling diner located on Collins Avenue in South Beach, Miami. via afar

sip

Hotel Victor (1144 Ocean Drive, Here you can sit at a sidewalk table with a glass of wine and enjoy live music on the hotel’s porch.) (via 36 hours in Miami Beach)
Winwood Brewing Company (565 NW 24 Street, Miami; info) Works by neighborhood street artists Krave and Trek6 cover the walls; the tap handles (shaped like spray cans) pour La Rubia blond ale. via Food and Wine

shop

Lincoln Mall Road between Alton Road and Washington Avenue info
Inkanta (1111 Lincoln St., info) The first U.S. outpost of the Colombian gift shop Inkanta is the perfect place to score a memento of design-mad Miami. (Hungry for a Kidrobot banana figurine?) The jewel box–like store—gleaming white walls contrasting with a perforated stainless-steel counter—is the work of up-and-coming local architecture firm NC-office. The boutique’s stock and aesthetic are in step with its Miami Beach location, a visionary public-garage-as-upscale-retail-space that opened last year. Designed by Herzog & de Meuron, it may be the world’s only must-see car park. via afar

stay

where to stay

sources

http://www.abqjournal.com/618220/entertainment/beat-the-summer-heat-and-take-off-for-cloudcrofts-third-annual-art-and-wine-in-the-cool-pines-event.html

http://www.sunset.com/travel/southwest/things-to-do-cloudcroft-new-mexico

See in Cloudcroft:

The Lodge Resort
- The Lodge has seen such luminaries as Judy Garland, Clark Gable and every governor of the state. Pancho Villa

The Trestle Recreation Area Trail just west of the village is a short stroll of just over a mile one way that leads to the historic Mexican Canyon Trestle Bridge that was built in 1900. Although no longer in use and even hikers are prohibited from crossing it, its rugged, scenic setting makes it a destination for train lovers and photographers.

The Osha Trail

“It is located at 8,600 feet with a loop length of 2.1 miles,” Schultz said. “There are a number of vistas along the way, with benches to rest with great views into the (Tularosa) basin.”

National Solar Observatory (nsosp.nso.edu/visit) near the top of Sacramento Peak is an educational experience.

Sunspot Solar Observatory

Eat in Cloudcroft:

https://www.yahoo.com/travel/50-best-bbq-joints-in-the-country-128074837027.html

Let’s start by saying that there’s not a huge demand for barbecue in New Mexico. To find it you must follow the Texans. Mad Jack’s Mountaintop Barbecue in Cloudcroft caters to the hordes of border crossers that flock to the mountains in the southeastern corner of the state, and it does it quite admirably.

Cloudcroft is also famous for its crisp mountain apples that ripen later in the year. Visitors to the area should definitely heed the “fresh fruit pie” signs tacked onto roadside trees.

near Cloudcroft:

White Sands National Monument.

www.nps.gov/whsa

Linclon National Forest

www.fs.usda.gov

http://www.fs.fed.us/ivm/