Camping in Tomoka State Park, Ormond Beach, FL
After leaving the Astronaut Hall of Fame around 6:30 Wednesday night, we decided to head a few hours north on I-95. We tried a Walmart near Daytona around 7:30, but were told that the entire county has an overnight parking ban, and that the police would show up and kick us out sometime in the wee hours. So, we whipped out the handy AAA camping guide, and found Tomoka State Park in Ormond Beach. We considered calling Diane’s (our former next door neighbor) mother and asking to stay in her driveway, but decided that after traumatizing Tom’s parents and their neighborhood with our disreputable rig, we wouldn’t inflict ourselves on a friend’s parents.
The Ranger, Diane, at Tomoka talked us in, and we arrived around 8:30. The campground is so nice and peaceful that we decided to stay another night and just take it easy by ourselves for a day. The park is beautiful, mostly wooded and nestled on a peninsula between a river and the Intracoastal waterway. We were told not to leave the dogs tied outside or to let them swim because of alligators, but overall the park is a quiet and safe place, although we apparently walked the dogs through a nest of ticks, which we’ve been picking off ever since – shades of growing up in NJ.
Tom working in the camper
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