The Bagby family with their Piper Seneca at the Vero Beach airport. From left: Mikaela, 7, Mike with 10-month-old Arielle, Laura and Lucas, 6.
Scratch the surface of the good life in Vero Beach – say, by spending a few extra minutes with the next guest you meet at a weekend party – and the discussion is likely to turn to more than golf, boats and great weather.
That’s what happened when I met ex-Navy fighter pilot Michael Bagby. Once a Hawaiian beachcomber and Colorado ski bum, he seemed at first blush to have all the earmarks of the classic bon vivant. After all, not everyone forsakes a career as an elite aviator in the prime of life to open an ice cream parlor in Honolulu.
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