Sporting a very cute downtown, artsy Cocoa village has a very different feel to many of the anonymous town and strip malls we have seen so far.
It feels very much like a perfectly curated ideal of a small town, boho American town that you’d see on a TV show like Ghost Whisperer or Schitts Creek.
The artsy vibe is continued with lots of vivid murals covering the downtown walls. From tropical flowers to nods to the maritime lifestyle.
They celebrate their proximity to the NASA base here too.
Founded in 1885, the S.F. Travis Company is the oldest continuously operating business in the city of Cocoa and one of the oldest hardware stores in Florida.
It looks straight out of a scene from Red Dead Redemption! We kept expecting a posse to saunter up on horse back at any time.
Colourful murals adorn the walls of this gallery so the photo prop is wheeled out to do his thing!
Obviously I am an overgrown child so delight in this particular photo opportunity.
Then we just have time to grab a 50th birthday pizza for this gorgeous human being before heading to the wind whipped beach to get salty.
We take a brief pitstop at Cocoa beach with its colourful Coconuts on the Beach tikki bar, with just a little splash of cultural appropriation.
Then it’s on to possibly the biggest surf shop in the world! Ron Jon’s Surf Shack!!