Daytona/Ormond Beach REPOST from July 2, 2009

RE-POST from July 9, 2009, the post got ONE comment.

If the Real Estate market was not upside down, we would be walking on the beach every morning looking at the above view, taken at 6:30 am

In the 28 plus years we have been married, every single vacation we took, twice a year most of the time, was at  Ormond Beach which  is part of Daytona Beach and that was our intended place of retirement.

We love the old frame houses, but these are just wonderful, they are sprinkled around in little nooks and crannies.

I mean where else could a photographer take a picture like the one above, looking DOWN on the bus and the traffic signal

this is a Ocean Walk Shoppes, Daytona Beach, right on the beach, if you click on the pictures and make them bigger, you can see the water in some of them, that would be the Atlantic Ocean right outside the Mall. We were there before it opened, so this snapping person could get the view without the hordes of people.

Glassed in walkway to get from parking lot to the mall, it crosses A1A

Enlarge this picture and you can see the ocean......

Dream Home in Ormond Beach

 Above is our coveted Dream Home. it is a Santa Lucia Plantation cottage, built in 1886 from vertical palm logs. It is in Ormond Beach Florida. It is a short 3 block street, covered by old trees and no through traffic. just us Coveters

Our dream since 1985 was to retire at Ormond Beach... maybe someday

                           

We found our dream home in 1987 just 100 years after they built it, my photo of it hangs on our kitchen wall. Just steps from the beach and steps to the Saint Johns River.. now it is 127 years old.

For all these years, each time we go to our favorite beach, we drive by and sit and stare and declare we will offer them millions if we ever win the lottery.  NOTE: i am not posting the address just in case one of my readers has millions...

These two homes are on the same street and neighbors to our dream home. Above is Talahloka hunting lodge, also built from palm logs and built in 1886.

Below is Trappers Lodge, built of logs in 1876

     to see how i would decorate my home go to

                                                            Jack Hanna's Log Cabin

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All photos from Google Earth using my Snip Tool and maps.

 and now we know How they take the photos for Google Earth Maps... tomorrow post, why we love Ormond...