We were now on a schedule as we needed to be in Daytona Beach on the 5th for our reservations to leave the boat there for a month while we returned to Yorktown to file our income taxes and receive our COVID vaccines.
We headed up the ICW back to New Smryna and stayed a couple days anchored south of the bridge. The weather was good and we were able to do the 5-mile walk across the 2 main bridges there. We arrived at the lift bridge just in time to watch a bridge lift from shoreside.
The great part of this New Smyrna walk is that at the end you walk past several restaurants and the New Smyrna Beach Brewing company. Since the weather was great, we had to stop and have a beer.
We discovered the next day that this was probably not such a great idea as our minds must have been too focused on our need to get to Daytona Beach the next day. Sue left her phone at the outside table where we were sitting and had to sprint back to retrieve it. But that was not the bad thing. It turned out that I had left my wallet at the same table after paying our bill and, unfortunately, I did not detect that until we arrived at Daytona Beach the next day and went to check into the marina. This turned into a major difficulty as we were supposed to pickup our rental car on the 5th, and I would not be able to get the car with my driver's license being in my wallet in New Smyrna.
Fortunately, it all worked out. The brewery had my wallet safely secured there. Now we just had to figure out how to get our rental car and drive back down there to retrieve it. I was able to retrieve a photo of my passport from my computer, move it to my phone, show that ID to the rental car company and sweet talk them into giving me the car (that was easier paperwork for them than rebooking it into Sue's name.
All worked out in the end and we were able to depart Daytona Beach via rental car on time for Yorktown. It turned out this was a good week to be gone from Daytona Beach as we departed on the 1st day of Bike Week at Daytona, I'm sure another super-spreader event for COVID in Daytona.
We are now back in Yorktown for a month, getting our vaccines and visiting with Gregory. We will head back to the boat on the 1st of April.
