Vizcaya

   While in Miami, I had the pleasure of meeting up with the lovely Paula, a Hana friend who grew up in Miami and happened to be visiting while I was there. We ventured to the Coconut grove neighborhood where she took me to the hidden treasure, Vizcaya. Vizcaya was the estate of the wealthy executive James Deering in the mid 1900’s. After his death it became a museum plush with lavish Italian gardens and perfectly preserved rooms that reflect the opulent lives once lived within it’s walls. We found canivalesque painted poles disintegrating in the mangroves, quinceañera princesses having their picture taken on the lawn, and hidden doors in the rock walls. It was the kind of place that inspires stories in the mind of the things that transpired there a century ago.