Idle Speed Now, pt. 1 - Ocean Reef Club

Happiness was the intention the founders had when they established the Ocean Reef Club (1945) just north of Key Largo, which is the first of the Florida Keys (or last, depending on your direction into or out of Havana). It’s a place that inspires the kind of prevailing leisure that only a life of extraordinary comfort can provide. By its own account, the ORC "reflects the thoughtful creation of an ideal, exclusive community of like-minded people.” Typically such a display of blatant homogeneity would scare a mutt like me to death, but somehow or another I manage to get on just fine.

The Z and I made a quick sojourn down just before summer. Good to get back to the simplicty, the sportsman's paradise, the appreciation for decorum... sometimes it really is just best to wear the jacket. It's where we've rung in many-a-New Year and where we had our first dance and hopefully where we'll continue going for years to come. Alas, that's not my call, but until they turn me away at the gate I'll be back... happily.
 


  





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