then and not much now. pop. might be a thousand but it looks dead as ever from here to DeL and same old flat. deserted country buildings falling down etc. De Land quiet a nice looking place turned East from here and nothing at all for 20 miles only trees & swamps. arrived at Daytona about 1130am crossed a bridge and drove about half a mile to the famous beach where they have the Auto Races. it sure is some beach. it was about 200 feet wide. some time wider as it changes with the tides. and they say you can drive for 30 miles on it. we drove for about 5 miles on it. it is hard and level and the car hardly makes a mark on it. 50 miles was about all our car would do. a cold wind but sunny when we arrived but about 130pm it clouded up and started to rain. so we drove around the city a little and started back home. Stopped at Sanford to have another look at the Zoo. saw one of the old boats loading freight there asked the man if