Ground Zero Beach

Vero Beach, FL: You've probably never heard of the town, but for the past three weeks, I've been living in a hotel suite at Dodgertown (where the LA Dodgers practice baseball) in Vero Beach. The not-so-affectionate nickname for it is Zero Beach. Self-explanatory.

It's about half way between Orlando and Miami, for one. But there's one big, big reason why VB is infamous: Next door to Dodgertown is a municipal airport complete with a flight training school named FlightSafety. Ring a bell yet? No?

Flight Safety Academy is the school that trained the 9-11 hijackers to fly.

Both the school and Dodgertown are bankrupt and desperately to sell themselves to anyone who will take it-- all of it. Brief description of Deviltown: 60s motel-model complex where the ball players stay and practice during the off-season but has now become a conference center, consisting of an atrocious dining hall complete with a Soup Nazi, two very pungent buildings bursting of moldy odors resulting from a constant war between the humidity vs the AC. Both buildings contain room of random sizes named after famous dead Dodgers baseball players with absolutely zero technology, save a Post-It board on an easel. At the beginning of next year, Dodgertown will no longer have the Dodgers, as they are moving away.

What will they do with all those plaques, signs, memorials, and shrines to the Dodgers?