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I just have to share... I frequent Florida regularly because at 60, I still refuse to grow up. I go several times a year to Kiteboard various favorite spots on both coasts as well as the keys. A familiar landmark!! Ron Jon's Surf Shop is a very large Surf Board and appearal store right smack dab in the center of Cocoa Beachs City's Strand. Well for many moons, as soon as you enter Florida, the landscape is littered with billboards, and I swear 75% of them are sporting poster boys and girls,, blonde haired, blue eyed surfer looking humans,,,. You...

MARGATE, N.J. - He's a diehard surfer, an eccentric millionaire, a sun-seeking recluse. Given all that, Ron DiMenna's choice of retirement home makes perfect sense.Who else would spend $500,000 to buy an RV, equip it with a slew of high-tech electronic features, paint it to look like a 21st-century woodie and then hit the road, destinations unknown?But DiMenna, the 66-year-old founder of Cocoa Beach, Fla.-based Ron Jon Surf Shops, is not the retiring type. He has three shops in Florida - Cocoa Beach, Orlando and Sunrise.More than 40 years after he started selling boards on nearby Long Beach Island, the...