The day served up an unusual combination of street art, contemporary art, and Peruvian food (not fused with any other type of food).

We walked along 2nd Ave in the Wynwood district to take in the colorful graffiti and street art. In the midst of all this we ran into a giant green baby (who was unnervingly muscular), and a 3-story Greek mythological type of figure who either looked like she could protect you or strangle you. I guess it depends on your frame of mind.

We thought we would balance all this visual excitement by making an emergency trip to Target. I know, vacation can’t be all escapism and adventure, at some point we eventually find ourselves looking for a drugstore of some type.

The Rubell Museum was the last stop on our Miami art tour. We had no earthly idea what we were walking into. As we drove up to a 50,000 square foot warehouse, and parked right in front of the entrance, I thought maybe I had mistakenly bought tickets to the wrong place. A non-descript building with easy parking right in front. Was this really the right place to view some of the most monumental artists in contemporary art?

It was one of the most spectacular museums we have been to in years.

We experienced two Yayoi Kasuma infinity rooms (no long lines to enter, really no line at all), explored an entire room of Keith Haring works, got up close and personal to two of Anselm Keifer’s monumental works…..I could on and on. Now imagine that we are the only people in the museum (with the exception of a small tour group who was moving in the perfect opposite direction from us) for the better part of an hour. We really enjoyed this museum, and the story about the owners is even more fantastical

Our trip to the southeastern part of the U.S. was the perfect mix of photography, food, and cultural adventure. It took this trip to help me realize how little I really know and understand about my home country. You can’t really learn and understand it from a high school text book.

Tomorrow, we head to a remote part of the world where I anticipate the cell service and wi-fii to be non-existent or spotty at best (have I made you curious?). I will continue to write these daily trip reports while we are there, and will schedule them to post each day once we return.