Miami Boat Show is A Monster

I’m mostly a positive person but I can be a bitcher and the 2008 Miami Boat Show gives me cause to bitch. The show was four different venues that were scattered across wonderfully accessible downtown Miami. Big, tour bus shuttles carried attendees from location to location. The pick up and drop off points to catch the shuttle were strategically located so that you had to hump it all the way across parts of the show carefully following the stickers on the floor. The Strictly Sail part of the show was tucked away by itself and actually kinda small. Downtown Miami driving was utterly horrible, hotels were overpriced and to me the entire event is counter productive because it’s just tiring. There’s lots of interesting things to see, but it’s just too much like hard work to see it. I suppose if you travel a long distance to spend three days looking at everything under the sun in one inconvenient location, then it’s a good show.