It’s no secret that Florida has been a difficult place for me to leave. This US trip has really lingered down here, and just when I make up my mind to leave, something or someone else interesting and curious makes me want to stay a little longer. Also, the weather makes it very easy to be a lingerer - until it doesn’t and instead when you’re sleeping your car feels like a coffin in which you’ve been buried alive, gasping for air that’s thick and humid- but that only happened once.
All the photos below and all the ones that’ll follow are the reasons I haven’t yet left.
Meple and Noeli in Little Havana. I met these guys at the airbnb where I was staying, after multiple attempts to leave that week- packing my bags, packing my car, exploring the area, deciding it was too late to leave and I’d leave the next day, calling Julio and asking if I could just stay one more night- repeat, repeat, repeat, and then an invitation to his granddaughter’s birthday party, where I met these guys and learned of a magical apartment building in South Beach where they all live.
Guille, Noeli, Amaya in South Beach. After I finally left Little Havana, only because someone else had already booked my room at Julio’s, I meant to leave Miami…but stayed a little longer to hang out with these guys in the magical apartment building.