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Have had vaious fishing vehicle over the last 20 tears. I had a small GMC pickup with a cap and would sleep inside the cap at Burligame. Did this when I fished 4 days a week. Was very good since no need for any camping gear except a sleeping bag , a Peak1 stove to boil water for coffee and a portable tiny propane grill to burn meat on. I would often head down to Charlestown Thursday early afternoon and stay until I had to drive home to work after fishing monday AM. This was probably the simplest most carefree time of my fishing career.
Road the beaches in friends 4 wheelers in the fall from maybe 83 onward then I just had to get a vehicle of my own to ride the beaches. Got a used 4WD Blazer two years old with just 22k miles for half its original price. That type of Blazer (94-2002 models) glides over the sand beautifully. kept that blazer 7 more years abd had zero problems until the last year when it cost me plenty to keep it alive that last year.
Got an almost identical 2002 same deal , 2 years old with about 20K miles for less than half the original sticker and still have . Both theses blazers towed many a dumb a$$ out of sand traps in all kinds of other big , small, cheap , expensive , big name , economy named models of SUV's. Never even one time did either of these Blazers get close to stuck. Alas , they no longer make that model and I don't know how the new "TrailBlazers" are in the sand. Like Big Game reels and Cortland Spectron line----the best fishing gear , including trucks eventually get changed or discontinued. So we adapt and improvise because we are surf fisherman.
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