PORT CLINTON – No one had much faith in Coffee Express when it first opened. The public said it couldn’t succeed; the shop’s landlord was skeptical; and even owner Tina Thompson thought a coffee shop had no chance of flourishing in Port Clinton.

She proved everyone, including herself, wrong.

Today, 27 years later, Thompson and Rebecca DeTray, who joined her 15 years ago, are selling their thriving business.

“My best friend, Shari Schwinkendorf, was moving here in ’93, and she knew I always wanted to open a shop of my own. She…