lifestyle _ travel I The CNN Headquarters satisfies an appetite for information, where the longest escalator of the world guides one to the CNN studios, where visitors can see directly into studio windows. News is today a highly-complex and digitalised production. CNN anchormen and -women work directly from news bureaus, endowed with highly-sensitive microphones that block surrounding noises, and are digitally beamed into futuresque studio settings. calypso sound. The Spanish churros pastry, along with hot chocolate, drench the night. _Going up The Kennedy Space Center is financed uniquely with entrance fees, and is the most gigantic PR measure to promote aerospace. The spacy center is located in a gigantic _Bienvenidos a Miami! Miami truly cites its Miami Vice pop culture reference, shimmering in pleasant pastel colours, and glowing as the vibrant and voluptuous as the eighties era. Pastelblue daytime skies change into dramatic evening shades. The Art Déco district can be explored with guided tours, and it is the sight of a tragedy: Gianni Versace was murdered at Ocean Drive 1116 in his Casa Casuarina. The Magic City merges into a true melting point and is the largest and most vibrant out-ofLatin America community, visible in Little Havana. Two-thirds of Miami people cite Spanish as their mother tongue. Those Latin, Carribean, Central and South American as well as European influences melted into the unique New World, or Nuevo Latino, cuisine. In the Las Vegas Restaurant, one can get a taste of the Cuban Fusion cuisine. After sun-bathing at South Beach, synonymous to “showing what you’ve got”, most restaurants turn into nightclubs. Coconut Grove offers after-dinner cocktails in outside cafés and bars, where one cannot only indulge in tastes, but also sounds of Latin America and the Carribean. Cubans brought the conga and rumba to Miami from their homelands, instantly popularising it into US-American culture. Dominicans carried bachata, and merengue into the bars, while Caribbeans brought reggae, soca, nature reserve and is not only a high-tech playground,visitors can’ witness work in progress on the working facilities. For outlanders, an All-American road trip is the path to understand that theUnited States of America is a gathering of civilizations and cultures, flora and fauna, images and sounds, flavours and aromas, styles, and feelings; and “to get the feel of the road”, notes Erin McHugh in The Little Road Trip Handbook, “remember that it’sthe journey, not the destination.”_ roots I 4 _ 2009 45