Where do you prefer to travel: the beach or the mountains? (rental, attraction)
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I like the mountains,i like lots of trees,babbling brooks, i like fall colors, i like skiing in the winter, i like snow etc..
Beaches? not so much,what do you do on a beach other than sit on your butt,look at water,smell dead fish and sweat a lot.
I love both. The sound of the ocean and the smell of the salty air is so soothing and invigorating. But it's so darn hard to find privacy on a beach, aside from going in the middle of winter. I went to Cape Cod one December - it was just gorgeous and totally private since no-one else had the same level of insanity.
For a longer term prospect, it'd have to be the mountains in a secluded cabin with access to a water source. Yeah, I'm the scary hillbilly they done warned ya 'bout.
I like them both so I often pick areas where I can access both within the day. California, New Hampshire, VA/NC. If you go out of the US there are loads of places (like Thailand) where the mountains come down to the beach.
One of my favorites is Wales where there are gorgeous sandy beaches and a train or car ride will take you into some lovely mountains similar to the Ozarks in less than two hours.
I'm an unadulterated beachcomber, so the answer is obvious here- but mountains are fine with me, too. What I dislike most are boring flatlands -unless there are lakes and wilderness to give it some variety. And of course the drab wasteland called "Suburbia"...
The coast ('coast' seems to be a more relevant contrast to 'mountains') is certainly nice, but I love the crisp clean smell of the mountain air, the amazing vistas, the living rock exposed, and the fantastic biological and climatic variation that comes with the great elevation variety of mountains.
Then there's the added bonus that the mountains are simply less popular than the coast, and there is so much more of them (the coast being, by definition, a relatively narrow piece of land). Due to this, there are vast swaths of spectacular mountains where one can be and it is not crowded, as opposed to coasts, which generally draw people and the refuse of civilization in unpleasant numbers and quantities.
Mountains. I never knew how much I liked them until I spent time hiking in them. I'm a born flatlander and never knew any better.
If there are no mountains, I'll happily take the beach.
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