This week I have been on vacation in the beautiful mountains of North Carolina, so I’ve decided to break out an old chestnut from my school days for today’s poll – Mountains or Beach?
I honestly don’t know if I prefer one over the other. Beach trips are more fun, and I love falling asleep listening to the ocean, but a cabin out in the middle of nowhere on a mountain is wonderful for straight-up rest & relaxation. If you could choose, which would you pick?
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Mountains! Especially if it’s one with a nice windy river so you can take a good long morning hike and then float back down in the afternoon, basking in the sun while talking with friends and splashing in the water.
BEACH. Always and forever.
I say this as an eternally pale person who hates being barefoot. But those visuals…wow.
My boyfriend and I are in the midst of this discussion. I like the mountains because I like camping, tents, and peace and quiet where I can read or hike, build fires, make camp food in a dutch oven, and hang out with tress and stuff I don’t have downtown. My boyfriend wants to go to the beach because… I don’t know. But his parents have a condo there, with a boat, and they have electricity so he can game (I’m a bit bitter about all the gaming he’s doing now that the bar is over). I am bored out of my mind there. And I am terrified of large bodies of water and anybody who is not my dad driving a boat. And I always get sinus pressure at the beach. And I don’t like hanging out in my bathing suit around a bunch of strangers. And his mom is mad at me right now because she thinks my boyfriend missed the package because I didn’t want to go to his house and made him stay at my house, but I didn’t even know about the package and he forgot. And now I’m mad at him because his mom always blames me for everything.
Anyway. We’re doing both, but I REALLY don’t want to go to the condo and get the cold shoulder for 5 says. Yay.
Beach! Mountains are pretty from afar but like Hattie, I have no idea what you do there up close. (One of my big life goals is to never camp again.)
Mountains, all the way! I can’t swim or tan and I hate sand, so I’ve never enjoyed beaches. And mountains tend to be less humid
Beach. I wouldn’t know what to do in the mountains! I hate camping.
Beach, because then you can sunbathe and swim. We don’t get a very nice summer where I live currently (well so far anyways), so I would love to go spend my vacation on a beach.