The first post of each season:

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Yachts in Fort Lauderdale



We really wished we were in Fort Lauderdale overnight, as the water taxi runs until 11pm, and so many of the mansions and yachts are decorated for the holidays. The nighttime runs on the water taxi are supposed to be really beautiful.

We saw the mansions of the family who founded Staples, the Wells family (of Wells Fargo), Bert Reynolds' and Merv Griffin's old homes (these were quite small, relatively speaking), and the multiple huge mansions of the family who founded and owns Auto Nation. Many of the mansions belonged to the owners of the largest (pick one: Porche, Lexus, Jaguar) dealership conglomerates in the country. And what was amazing was that a $30 million mansion would have a multi-million dollar statuary near the pool, and a $50 million yacht at the dock. One mansion even had a bell tower that chimes on the hour.

Like I said, the excess was mind-numbing.