Where I spent my today:

Ormond-By-The-Sea.

Only 20 minutes north of Daytona Beach, but no driving on the beach, no towering resorts, no hoards of tourists. No traffic. No expensive parking lots. No noise from four-lane roads and cheesy shops selling Corona air-brushed boogie boards and matching tank tops.

Just pretty:



This is the place I was telling Mack about going if he wanted to go to a beach.

I brought a lawn chair, an umbrella, and my book. Took my pick between miles of places to sit down.

Read for a while and then fell asleep.

Then ate my fill of raw oysters for dinner in Daytona. That place is good for something. Just not beaches.

I really should hit the Atlantic beaches before I head back to Nebraska. I love the smell of the sea. Southern NJ is about the best option, maybe a day sittin on the beach will calm some issues in the mind.

agentwhale007 wrote: Beach naps are some of the best naps in the history of naps.

QFT!

I never realized how much I actually loved the beach... and then I got stationed in MT.

i spent my day parked in front of two of these.




Edited by procarbinefreak - 29 July 2010 at 1:25am

After living in Daytona for 2 years, I can tell you that it is, in fact, good for nothing.  I was down there last week and we stayed toward Wilbur by the Sea.  Hotel deals were much better there than in Ormond.  Beach was fairly busy, but nothing like Daytona.  As far as seafood goes, there are some great places near Ponce Inlet.  Theres also a good place on the river in Holly Hill, near a park, can't remeber the name though.

While I understand wanting to get away from it all. One of the best things about going to the beach is people watching. I also like being able to park on the beach. So for me Smyrna if pretty much the beach that we frequent. When we are down there that is.

Wrong coast choop. But im in Bonita springs (Just south of fort myers) and there aint no oil here either.

Hey sneaky, i just moved to florida in june. Suck it.

NiQ-Toto wrote: Wrong coast choop. But im in Bonita springs (Just south of fort myers) and there aint no oil here either.

It's the same ocean, and near florida. No oil, therefor the spill wasn't a catastrophe, and merely a small deal. The media blew it way out of proportion, all their fault

DaveEllis wrote: Maybe I'm just crazy, but I could never nap in a public place like that.

I cannot nap at all. I just end up looking at the back of my eyelids till I get bored.

On really long road trips sleeping in the car is out of the question as well. I'll start to doze off then I'll jump back awake because I feel like I'm falling the entire time.