Our first stop on downtown Daytona’s historic main drag, was the Dancing Avocado Kitchen, where both the fare and the décor hearken back to the 1960s. I ordered a toasted cheese and avocado sandwich with a side of shredded broccoli stems. Nancy treated herself to the sprouted lentil salad. Old street signs, bumper stickers, and posters festoon the walls of the Dancing Avocado. My fave? "Stop! Forrest! Stop!” (Think Forrest Gump, the movie). Curious about the ambiance of the place, I asked the waitress if it had been there since the '60s. “No,” she said, "We’ve only been in business 18 years." After lunch, we strolled two blocks south to the Halifax Historical Museum, located in what was once the old Merchant’s Bank Building. The building, which opened in 1911, is itself a piece
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