MY Pictures today are more from Volusia County again.

And our Honorable Mention today…a great little restaurant just a block or two east of downtown…but well worth the trip for this Comfort Food revisited treat that is great to eat.

Phone:(386) 279-0110

http://www.menupix.com/menudirectory/menu.php?id=380272797

P.S.  The owner/chef actually changes the menu so often–what’s fresh, what’s available, what’s hot—that they bring you a big chalk board with the menu on it and you pick from that.

and it’s in the Eastwood Terrace Inn

just go to the back—park and you’ll see signs for the restaurant.

“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” — T.S Eliot

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today takes a bold look at a subject brought up in the first new show of the year:    http://www.examiner.com/article/outlander-and-confirmation-pubic-hair-debate-the-honeypot-and-the-coke-can

and Sam and Cait on Sophie and Richard:  http://www.eonline.com/videos/247653/outlander-stars-sam-heughan-and-caitriona-balfe-play-coy

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VOLUSIA COUNTY

We continue the adventure today.

FIRST:  THE FACTS MAME, JUST THE FACTS:

DELAND

The county seat of Volusia and home of the River Town Café…It has even been featured in a few books–River in the Wind by Edith Everett is set in a grove near the city, while Flamingo Road (later a TV series and prior to that a movie in 1949 with Joan Crawford)  by Robert Wilder it has always been regarded locally as being based on political corruption and scandals in Deland and it’s surrounding county.

Spending a day in the city is great for those of us that love historical homes.  The historic district with impressive architecture:  See especially the Stetson Manson,

Though not opened to the public on a regular schedule. tours are some times available especially at Christmas (http://www.stetsonmansion.com/)

Oh  the University was named by Mr. Deland—the town’s founder as well as the University’s–for  Mr.  Stetson who was a main donor as well as the owner of the company that made all those hats–yeah the ones the cowboy wore.

THE TOWN ALSO BOASTS:

Deland House Museum:  http://www.delandhouse.com/

African American Museum of the Arts:  http://www.africanmuseumdeland.org/

Deland Memorial Hospital Museum:  http://visitwestvolusia.com/whattodo.cfm/mode/details/id/11190/deland-memorial-hospital-museum

AND FOR THOSE MORE ADVENTURESOME:

Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Museum:  http://www.fws.gov/refuge/lake_woodruff/

And the best for last:

Skydiving Deland:  http://www.skydivedeland.com/

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Daytona Beach was once many separate communities, but now the whole area from Ormond Beach south is one large component.   The area has had a few books written about it and is included in the novels of Edgar A. Anderson (Day Number 142), Howard Bloomfields’s (Last Cruise of the Nightwatch) as well as Stewart Sterling (Kick of the Wheel)

The city got it’s name from a Matthias Day who built a hotel here….after Flagler built his railroad thru the town…but it wasn’t until Ranson Olds, a wealthy, playboy, racer was instrumental in starting a race on the hard packed sands here as well as a new car brand in the early 1900’s…eventually the cars would abandon the beach for the speedway, but despite the change it’s one of the things that went a long way to making this tourist town famous and is still very active which is more than I can say for Oldsmobile.

Daytona is a place to avoid in the spring with it’s college gone mad merry makers, it’s race fans and bikers and so on.  But if you can catch it in a quieter period (unless you’d like to participate in one or more of the preceding activities) the Speedway is open for tours and there’s lots for the race fan to see and buy (PS there’s also races around the 4th of July as well).  http://www.daytonainternationalspeedway.com/

OTHER THINGS IN DAYTONA:

Museum of Arts and Sciences:  http://www.moas.org/main.cfm    This museum is an unexpected gem from the entire Cuban national art collection–given to the city by Batista when he fled the island as Castro was taking over….and for those who like nature there’s one of the most complete giant pre-historic sloth skeletons anywhere in the world.

Southeast Museum of Photography:  http://www.smponline.org/

Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse Museum:  http://ponceinlet.org/

The Beach: http://www.daytonabeach.com/things-to-do/the-beach/public-parking/

The Boardwalk:  http://www.daytonabeach.com/things-to-do/attractions/boardwalk-pier/?gclid=Cj0KEQjw0dy4BRCuuL_e5MeqmNABEiQAq8iNIyfq6hrgh88u9I8ucgTJ1DdtGy-rOg0s-uONvWn_kPUaAnBc8P8HAQ

Jackie Robinson Ballpark:  http://www.milb.com/content/page.jsp?sid=t450&ymd=20100223&content_id=8118192&vkey=team1

Municipal Bandshell:  http://www.daytonabandshell.com/

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ~ Mark Twain

In Volusia you can go back to the Fountain of Youth.  Deleon Springs where local still insist that the Spanish explored just for that reason.

The Fountain of Youth Eco/History Tours www.foytours.net at Deleon Springs State Park combine the beauty of the nature your in with the history of the area which has been host to Indians, Spanish and more recent movers and shakers to make your tour interesting and attractive.  The tour on the M/V Acuer on the St. Johns River. 

This adventure includes unfolding scenery, and healing water to accompany 5,000 years of history which will include a healthy share of legends, facts and folk history.

And after your tour you might want to hike on the more than 5 miles of trails, swim  in the spring pool, fish, rent a kayaks, canoe or paddleboat or picnic or better yet stop by at the Old Spanish Sugarmill Restaurant http://www.oldspanishsugarmill.com/  where you make the pan cakes at your table.

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” ~ Marcel Proust

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