May 25 2025
Georgia may not be the first state that comes to mind when you picture an Atlantic beach vacation, but its coast has a character entirely its own. A chain of barrier islands stretches along roughly 100 miles of shoreline, with beaches backed by maritime forests, salt marshes, dunes, historic lighthouses, and enormous live oaks draped …
Apr 13 2025
Some vacations are made for slowing down beside the water. Others are about waking up beneath towering peaks, pulling on your hiking boots, and seeing what waits around the next bend in the trail. And then there are places where you can have both. From tropical islands shaped by volcanoes to rugged coastlines backed by …
Jan 03 2025
If you have not had a chance to make it over to the pacific northwest to visit Portland, Oregon I’m going to give you 10 reasons today why you should consider this vacation destination. Portland is the most populated city in Oregon and sits on the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers. This creates …
Aug 22 2024
Apollo Beach, Florida, is not the kind of destination where rows of umbrellas stretch across miles of white sand and vacationers spend the afternoon swimming in turquoise Gulf water. Its appeal is quieter. Set along the eastern shore of Tampa Bay south of Tampa, Apollo Beach is a place for watching manatees gather in warm …
Aug 18 2024
Stand on the shore at Illinois Beach State Park on a breezy summer day and Lake Michigan can look remarkably like an ocean. Waves roll onto the sand, gulls circle overhead, the horizon stretches beyond sight, and long sections of shoreline feel far removed from the skyscrapers and suburbs associated with northeastern Illinois. Look a …
Jul 07 2024
Miami is easy to reduce to a handful of familiar images: palm trees, white sand, pastel hotels, convertibles on Ocean Drive and a skyline rising beyond Biscayne Bay. Those images are real, but they represent only one part of a city that becomes much more interesting once you move beyond the postcard. A Miami trip …
Jun 29 2024
Practicing yoga on the beach sounds almost effortlessly peaceful: bare feet in the sand, the sound of waves nearby, warm sunlight, and a wide horizon instead of four studio walls. The setting can make a familiar practice feel completely different, but sand also changes the way your body moves and balances, while sun, heat, wind, …
Jun 21 2024
A handful of beaches around the world look as though someone scattered handfuls of tiny jewels along the shoreline. Green, amber, white, blue, and occasionally much rarer colors of glass mingle with sand and pebbles, their once-sharp edges rounded and their surfaces softened to a cloudy frost. These beaches can be beautiful, but their origins …
Jun 17 2024
Cannon Beach has become one of the most recognizable places on the Oregon Coast, thanks largely to a 235-foot sea stack rising from the surf. Haystack Rock may be the landmark that appears on postcards, but the town is surrounded by much more than a single famous view. Long stretches of sand, tidepools filled with …
May 21 2024
Camping near Monterey Bay can mean waking beneath coastal pines, walking from your tent to a wide Pacific beach, or spending the night among the redwoods before exploring Big Sur the next morning. The Monterey Bay area offers a surprisingly varied selection of campgrounds. Some put you within minutes of Cannery Row and downtown Monterey. …
