Your Arguments
"Listening to waves makes everything better."
- Anonymous (responded Beach)
"I haven't been skiing in years and I miss it. Also I live 4 blocks from a beach.
No need to visit one on vacation."
- Carin (responded Mountains)
"Relaxing. No climbing mountains. Do love to look at mountains though."
- Pat (responded Beach)
"Grab some coffee and buckle up.
I live in Florida. As a Floridian, you get... desensitized, when it comes to the beach. To borrow from Star Wars, "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere." I don't particularly hate sand myself, but there are
real challenges with the entire experience. I'm red haired and freckled, so I burn like a steak that can only be saved by ketchup and/or A1 steak sauce.
So, with all that being said, I'm pretty done with the whole idea of going to the beach, with an important caveat. I think the new hotness in terms of beach-going is going to the beach in the late afternoon, especially
if you have kids. Once they're all tuckered out, you throw them in the bath, you put dinner in them, and toss them in the bed. Otherwise, if you go in the daytime, you're stuck with sandy, angry, overtired children who turn into snack gremlins the entire day. No Thank You.
So, back to the mountains. We went twice last year to North Carolina. We all loved it. It wasn't
as hot but still warm. Trees were there! We still went to rivers and lakes and streams and had fun in water. There were little mountain towns that were super quaint and out of a hallmark commercial.
I got to grill ribs on the side of a mountain and fly a drone so far that I couldn't visibly see it anymore. I could have done that on the beach too, I guess, but I would
have been significantly sunburned in the process.
Yeah, you have to fight mountain traffic. Yes, of course, it can be scary depending on where you go.
But, you don't end up nearly as sunburned, and everyone else and their brother are going to
be at the beach. I don't know about you, but going to Saint Augustine in July, fighting an hour through Publix to get a pub sub made by a clearly hungover college student from Flagler college, only to eat it on the beach, so of course you have to eat sand, is not my idea of fun."
- Zachery Rose (responded Mountains)
"If the mountain has a lake, and pretty trees, and wildflowers, sign me up!
Beaches are a sensory nightmare with all of the sand everywhere and the wind. Also I might be in the minority on this one, but wide open spaces, like beaches, give me a panicked feeling, kind of how most people feel panicked in small spaces."
- Laura (responded Mountains)
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