Miami

Hotel

A great Hotel, cheap, with free WI/FI internet access in your room and free breakfast. Dadeland Mall and Dadeland Station (Target, Best Buy, Michael's, Bed Bath Beyond) are right there:

Hampton Inn Hotel at Dadeland
8200 SW 70th Ave
Miami, FL 33143
305-269-0072
305-269-1060 fax

Order dinner (delivery) from The Big Cheese:
8080 Southwest 67th Avenue
Miami, FL 33143-7702
(305) 662-6855
The Hampton Hotel has their menus at the front desk.
I recommend their Caesar salad. Their pasta is also great. They deliver quickly to the hotel.

Outdoors and Camping - Must Visit!

Cool Stores - Tiendas bien Interesantes
Jets All Florida Outdoors West of Palmetto
9696 Bird Rd.
Miami, FL USA
(Para cosas de camping)

Bass Pro Shops

Easy to get to going up I95 from Miami!
200 Gulf Stream Way
(Go north on 95 to Griffin rd exit 26, then head west, then take left on anglers, then take left on Gulfstream)
(Tienda de caza y peca enorme. Pensar en pasar 2-3 horas dentro de la tienda, mientras tu mujer va a Aventura Mall. Pedir los Fried Scallops o Stone Crabs en el restaurante de la tienda.)

Right next to Bass Pro Shops is a great place for buying beach wear and diving gear. Its enourmous! If you are going to the Caribbean or the beach, stop here first and get all your beach wear and diving gear. As follows:

Diver's Direct
180 Gulfstream Way
Dania, FL 33004
(954) 925-7630

Photographic Supplies, Cameras

Pitman Photo
8650 S.W. 132nd Street (Near The Falls)
Miami, FLA 33156-6507 :
1(305)256-9558, Fax: 1(305)256-9789
(Lugar para maquinas fotograficas y digitales )

Equestrian Supplies

Horse and Things
740 W 49th St. (Same As 103rd of Hialeah)
Westland Mall, 305-822-1713
Go Palmetto North and get off on 103, go east 13 blocks turn right into parking lot Get the Miller Harness Catalog
(Para cosas de Equitacion)

Sunset Feed & Supply (Horse)
7650 SW 117 Ave take sunset 72 west to 117th then south
305-271-0341
(Para cosas de Equitacion)

Great Arts and Crafts Stores

Pearl Arts & Crafts
13451 South Dixie Hwy.
Miami, FL
Work: 1(305)251-5700
(Para articulos de libreria. Esta tienda es enorme!)

Michael's
at Dadeland Station, again, close to the hotel listed above

Restaurants

Sushi Ko
7971 SW 40th St.
Miami, FL 33155
(Order a Roberto Roll,a Screaming Orgasm, un Sea Weed Salad and then a Chirashi) This in my opinion is the best Japanese restaurant I have eaten anywhere in the world.

Moon Japanese and Thai Cuisine
1118 S. Dixie Hwy
Coral Gables, FL 33146
(305) 668-9890
order: Edamame for apetizer

Captain's Tavern
9621 S. Dixie Hwy
Miami, FL 33156
305-666-5979
Close to Dadeland Mall just south on US1 opposite side of road-in a small square.
Order the Lobster or just about anything else. It looks like nothing on the outside, but the interior is really nice and the food is awesome!

Tony Romas
US 1 and SW 67 th Ave
Miami, FL
(Skip the bayby backs which you can get anywhere and rder the beef ribs)

The Cheesecake Factory
Located in Dadeland and Aventura Malls
(Try their dulce de leche Cheesecake and also their Thai Lettuce Wraps)

The Crab House
1551 79th Street Cswy.
(305) 868-7085
Get off going north on 95 on the 79th St. Causeway and go east until it apperars on your left)
(Order their Alaskan King Crab)

Joes's Stone Crab
11 Washington Av.
Miami Beach, FL 33139
(305) 673-0365
They are so busy they don't take reservations
Expensive but awesome Stone Crab Claws

Malls

The two best malls in Miami are
Aventura (Exit 20 Off 95 North to Ives Dairy Rd. To Biscayne Blvd.)
and
Dadeland Mall close to the hotel listed above:
7535 SW 88th St
(SW88th St. and US 1)
Miami, FL 33156
(305) 665-6226

Movies

My favorie are at Sunset Place and in The Falls
(Use the credit card tellers to buy tickets-it's faster!)

Freight forwarding your shopping to Bolivia
These guys can ship your loot door to door to La Paz. Highly recommended!

Francisco Portobanco
Intertrade Purchasing
1601 NW 93rd Ave.
Miami, FL 33172
(305) 477-3339
Frank@intertradepc.com

Other Countries

I have a list of great eating places in Lima-Peru, Bogota-Colombia, Buenos Aires+Salta-Argentina, Santiago-Chile, Munich-Germany, La Paz+Tarija+Cochabamba-Bolivia so if youre taking a trip send me an e-mail and I'll pass along those listings to you.