Naked Viewing

Naked Viewing

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My usual travel routine goes something like this: check into hotel and head out into field to survey the scene. But on my last trip to Miami Beach I was so mesmerized by the view from my 14^th-floor room at the One Bal Harbour Resort & Spa (oneluxuryhotels.com) that I lingered and lingered and lingered in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows in the super luxurious bathroom. One morning I soaked in the deep tub, which seemed to be on the edge of the building, memorizing the vista of Haulover Cut and its adjacent freshly raked sandy shore. My eyes scanned left taking in the thick green Intracoastal islands behind the slips of Haulover Marina. In the distance the “designer” towers of Sunny Isles Beach and Aventura sparkled in the crisp 49-degree air. Another morning I showered in the all-glass rain shower laughing that I could see out but no one could see in until I noticed the fishermen on the bridge looking up. Oops! No, they can’t see in, the bellman assured me the windows were tinted. OK it’s one of those airplanes pulling a banner touting the latest South Beach party that caught their eye. Whew!