I live about 90 minutes drive from Lake Tahoe, which is both, really. However, I have a preference for tropical climate and ocean beaches. I love HI.
Me too. Island life allows for both!
I'd go for mountain just down to novelty. I went from Australia to the UK, neither of which get above 2,000m. And growing up in Australia, I've spent a lot of time at the beach. Do really miss swimming in surf, though.
With global warming they will be one in the same soon.
I live in Florida, about a mile from the Ocean. I love the Ocean, but Florida has very limited horizons beyond it. When I visit my daughter in Colorado it is fantastic. The town she lives is at 9300 feet , even when it is sizzling in Denver, it rarely ever gets above 84 degrees where she lives. There are spots in Colorado where it seems like you can see forever.
It is this interchange of horizons that interests me, the flat expanse of the Ocean and all of Florida for that matter versus the the panorama you see at 10,000 feet standing on the Continental Divide. I think it affects how people confront life. People in Colorado are open and outgoing, people in Florida are neurotic at the core, but in a weird almost ingratiating manner.
I only visit my daughter in the middle of the summer.
I grew up near Newport Beach, CA. But lived for years in the Sierra Nevada in Mammoth Lakes. Nothing is more beautiful.
I would have to add the option of a beach on a mountain as some of the best times I have had were while camping on the beach on an alpine lake in a hanging valley.
I'd prefer a mountain because I have this thing about swimming with fish, bacteria, and parasites.
Yup... The deer ticks are much better for you! lol
@RiverRick Yeah, I don't like them either. I'm all for making ticks and mosquitoes extinct.
Clear salt water and the sound of the waves.
The beach is closely associated with the sun, which give off deadly radiation.
Mountain please.
Ocean breeze.. warm sand, water, waves, getting to ride some waves ?..