scaredy, I was last there in ’83 and witnessed the driving on the beach. It was in August (thunderstorm and hurricane season), not spring break.
Don’t you have an old Datsun P/U or El Camino sitting around your premises? You could install small fans on the posts behind the two front seats and get the vehicle “roadworthy” to take a little jaunt there and see if you will like it. You’ll fit right in! You can get there is three days of hard driving or 4 days of more leisurely driving :=0
There are several inland campgrounds from Daytona Beach that are cheap accommodations for tent (or pop-up tent) camping. However, the fleas that time of year are horrible (the whole state is a giant sandbox, which quickly absorbs the rain). They are so thick that you can barely see the person (3 ft in front of you) whom you are talking to. And don’t try to boil shellfish on your campfire or your fleas will be much worse … they will literally blind you.
A couple of the roads around there are toll roads with wide shoulders where hoardes of RV’s park whenever there is a space shuttle launch. Sitting perched on beach chairs on the roof of an RV parked on the side of the road for 8 hrs straight waiting for a launch is a favorite past-time of tourists in that area.
I hobbled out of FL a walking Calamine bottle with my arms and legs a crusty pink shell and the rest of me generally looking rather “lobsterized.”
And this was after diligently using repellent :=0
As much “fun” as I had there, I haven’t had the chance to go back . . .
