All good things must come to a close, so on July 5, after finally being able to get our plane tickets from Miami to Venezuela, we took the train from Charleston to Miami. We had another great journey with Amtrak. Our mound of luggage in the Miami train station does not even include a box of books that we collected in Miami, but it's still pretty impressive. We got on a city bus with all this luggage to get to Miami Beach, where we stayed at a hostel/hotel (Lombardy Inn) on the North Beach.
We took buses around the city, down to South Beach, and in to downtown. We also went swimming every day, being only a block from the white sand and turquoise water of the beach.