Steve, Sue and Polly enjoying wine from the O"Bryans
Monday & Tuesday 1/12-13/09
We drove north to the Port Orange / South Daytona area to find a Super Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club. It’s only about 15 miles from NSB but is a typical metro suburb with any kind of shopping and stores you might need. After the list was all checked off we headed back to the boat where I (RCB) did some cleaning up and Polly did some food prep things to get ready for guests that evening. The Morris’ came aboard as scheduled and we had a lovely evening exchanging histories and sipping wine. We all made tentative plans for a kayak outing when we get back from Marathon – neither Sue or Polly have been in a kayak (yet).
Tuesday came with a slight overcast, and cool-ish temperatures. I walked to Canal St. for a hair cut at Andre’s and Polly had an appointment at a salon for early afternoon. Andre bought the old barber shop just 2 years ago when he moved here from Gaithersburg, MD, following a divorce - he got the vacation home in Ormond Beach and she got everything else. He had a large shop in Maryland which he sold and came to Florida to figure things out. He saw the shop on Canal St. which had one chair and a “for sale” sign in the window and agreed to buy it the next day.
Back at the boat and all trimmed up, I installed the new mirrors on our bikes we set off for a little ride to test them out. About a mile from the marina my rear tire went flat, but no big deal since I had remembered to bring the tool kit and spare tubes. We were back on the road in 15 minutes and biked on south to the village of Edgewater which is a pleasant residential area between the ICW and Route 1. Soon after we got back to the boat rain showers arrived and we just read and napped for the remainder of the afternoon.
We had been so pleased with the breakfasts we had at Jason’s Corner that we planned to have dinner there while still in New Smyrna Beach. The showers seemed to be over so we walked the few blocks to the restaurant and were pointed to a nice table by the front window by Jane, our waitress. Dinner was excellent and Jane turned out to be very entertaining and kept up a witty and humorous conversation with us for the entire dinner. We both had seafood dishes (PMB – seared scallops on spinach with roasted vegetables RCB – shrimp & scallops carbonara with pasta) and we both declared our respective meals were as good as any we have ever had. We learned that Jason’s Corner is owned and operated by two experienced chefs who had worked in up-scale hotel dining rooms and wanted to have their own place and do their own thing with food. Jason’s Corner was an old deli and they have reconfigured it into a pleasantly furnished comfortable local spot with great food at reasonable prices.
We drove north to the Port Orange / South Daytona area to find a Super Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club. It’s only about 15 miles from NSB but is a typical metro suburb with any kind of shopping and stores you might need. After the list was all checked off we headed back to the boat where I (RCB) did some cleaning up and Polly did some food prep things to get ready for guests that evening. The Morris’ came aboard as scheduled and we had a lovely evening exchanging histories and sipping wine. We all made tentative plans for a kayak outing when we get back from Marathon – neither Sue or Polly have been in a kayak (yet).
Tuesday came with a slight overcast, and cool-ish temperatures. I walked to Canal St. for a hair cut at Andre’s and Polly had an appointment at a salon for early afternoon. Andre bought the old barber shop just 2 years ago when he moved here from Gaithersburg, MD, following a divorce - he got the vacation home in Ormond Beach and she got everything else. He had a large shop in Maryland which he sold and came to Florida to figure things out. He saw the shop on Canal St. which had one chair and a “for sale” sign in the window and agreed to buy it the next day.
Back at the boat and all trimmed up, I installed the new mirrors on our bikes we set off for a little ride to test them out. About a mile from the marina my rear tire went flat, but no big deal since I had remembered to bring the tool kit and spare tubes. We were back on the road in 15 minutes and biked on south to the village of Edgewater which is a pleasant residential area between the ICW and Route 1. Soon after we got back to the boat rain showers arrived and we just read and napped for the remainder of the afternoon.
We had been so pleased with the breakfasts we had at Jason’s Corner that we planned to have dinner there while still in New Smyrna Beach. The showers seemed to be over so we walked the few blocks to the restaurant and were pointed to a nice table by the front window by Jane, our waitress. Dinner was excellent and Jane turned out to be very entertaining and kept up a witty and humorous conversation with us for the entire dinner. We both had seafood dishes (PMB – seared scallops on spinach with roasted vegetables RCB – shrimp & scallops carbonara with pasta) and we both declared our respective meals were as good as any we have ever had. We learned that Jason’s Corner is owned and operated by two experienced chefs who had worked in up-scale hotel dining rooms and wanted to have their own place and do their own thing with food. Jason’s Corner was an old deli and they have reconfigured it into a pleasantly furnished comfortable local spot with great food at reasonable prices. 
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