Diana Nyad

Diana Nyad Instagram – Your Home Town
I’ve always been curious about whether most of us stay in or return to our Home Towns to live later in life, or whether we choose a different environment.
My Home Town was Ft. Lauderdale, FL, and even though I’ve chosen to live my adult life in both New York City and Los Angeles, I often get the chance to spend some time in Lauderdale, which was the case
the last couple of days.
The balmy nights, the beautiful sub-tropical clouds, the warm ocean all bring back a sensuality I respond to much more than the freezing Pacific and cold nights of the LA desert climate.
As a child, my mom would drop my brother, sister and me at the Gateway Theater late Saturday afternoons. I remember being enraptured by Journey to the Center of the Earth there when I was nine years old. I walked over there this time and the very Gateway is still there!
Inevitably, beach towns grow expontentially through the years and Ft. Lauderdale is no different. When I was a teenager, it was one of the first hugely popular spring break destinations but today the town has swelled with grand hotels, retail shops and restaurants. But all of that growth is not a negative to me. There is plenty to offer, day and night, and the nature is still absolutely
spectacular. The ocean is clean, the rivers are sparkling with lights at night, the wilds of the Everglades are close by.
We used to take air boats and go frogging on weekends there.
And the Keys are a short drive away.
So, I no longer live in my Home Town but I’m still in love with vibrant, charming Ft. Lauderdale.
#nyad #ftlauderdale #ftlauderdalebeach #hometown | Posted on 04/Mar/2025 23:34:56