While the weather was threatening, Matt and I put on a lightweight shell and decided to temp Mother Nature by booking a two hour Segway tour of West Palm and the island of Palm Beach. While we did not book a private tour, no one else arrived for the 10:30 tour so the tour was just us and our guide. The tour was fun and we learned a lot about the history of Palm Beach. As we rode our Segway across the bridge connecting West Palm with the island of Palm Beach we were told our credit score increased 200 points as the same real estate on the island of Palm Beach would be 3 times or more the price of West Palm. While I found it hard to believe, our guide claimed a few of the homes along the Intercoastal we Segway-ed by sold for in excess of $50M.
After the tour we had a quick lunch at the outdoor bar/restaurant ER Bradley’s before heading to a very Floridian activity, the dog track known as Palm Beach Kennel Club. Not surprisingly neither Matt nor I had been to a dog track and were pleasantly surprised by the condition of the track. We went down to the paddock, read the racing form, and made our best guess on which dogs were going to win. Needless to say, we came away about $50 lighter after the 6 races we watched.
No trip to Palm Beach is complete with a stop at the Breakers, a hotel built by railroad tycoon Henry Flagler in 1896 whose Florida East Coast Railway connected Jacksonville to Key West and all points in between along the east coast of Florida. There we had a drink before returning to the boat, changing and walking to dinner at Taboo, another restaurant on Worth Avenue that looked interesting when we walked the Avenue the night before. Again we were not disappointed.
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