Mount Dora
Drive about an hour north of Orlando and you find yourself in Mount Dora, a town on a plateau with an elevation of 174 feet, making it a pretty high spot in otherwise flat Florida. Full of boutiques, antique stores and restaurants, it is a surprisingly busy little spot considering it can be toured in about 15 minutes from end to end. We managed to spent the best part of an hour there, including having lunch. We did check out the yacht club at the lakefront at the end of Main street (on Lake Dora of course). For yacht, think flat-bottomed bass-fishing boat and you have the general idea.Daytona Beach
Afterwords, we continued east till we hit the east coast at Daytona beach.
This place seems to define the term "off-season" at it's best. Or possibly "past it's prime". Check out the world famous Daytona Beach pier and boardwalk as an example.
But it is a place full of cheap hotels on the beach, the weather is warm and it fits our lifestyle just fine. So here we will be for at least the next week.
One disconcerting thing is all of the cars that drive down the beach - just something we have not seen before. Being the weekend, it is probably busier than it would be otherwise.
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