When a dysfunctional polar vortex paralyzed New Jersey in a record cold winter, Mickey Harrison loaded his van and road tripped it to sunny Florida. His serendipitous journey brings us through the best of Florida: the glittering tourist coasts, the agricultural interior, gator infested Everglades, rollicking Key West, fanciful Orlando, and Cape Canaveral where we glimpse a future glowing with hope and promise.

While Harrison relishes the vagrant's life, we enjoy the show as he invents stealth urban camping as he goes along. For starters there is the nightly noir adventure as we cruise...