Tag: dailyprompt-2130

A good beach right about now

Taylor Burian1 Comment

Beach or mountains? Which do you prefer? Why?

Last time this prompt came up, I gave a serious attempt at answering the prompt as a whole, but this time I’ll keep it short.

We’re rolling into Winter now here in South Dakota. We just had our first snow of the season yesterday and normally I wouldn’t mind. Sadly, I’ve been stuck at home for the most of these last few weeks or so, albeit at my own discretion, but I could really use some time outside.

If I were to say my preference right now would be the mountains (which it actually is, as I described last time) I wouldn’t get too much difference compared to walking outside right this second. Cooler temps, a variety of trees, grass, dirt, and steep inclines. So, for the moment, and at least for this recent answering of the prompt, I’ll take the beach. The sun, sand, and the waves are something I feel I could use right about now.

To get high (in elevation)

Taylor Burian3 Comments

Beach or mountains? Which do you prefer? Why?

I could see the appeal of preferring the beach, but I also think that movies and tv (excluding the news) portray the beach in a more idealized fashion. People go “I love the beach” and I have to stop and think about why. You can’t spend all day there. You can’t really live there. There’s high tide and then low tide. Storm season. People only go for brief periods, typically on vacation.

The mountains, though, are where it’s at. The media of the last 50 years or so have covered all the different seasons you can experience in the mountains, so you know what to expect. You can live there if you want to, especially if you enjoy the much wider variety of activities you can do out there in the wilderness. Hiking, camping, rock climbing and bouldering, kayaking or canoeing, and fishing. Winter rolls around and you can add snow shoeing, skiing and snow boarding, snowball fights. There is so much potential if those are the things you enjoy. Personally, I just love the atmosphere, but if I got the chance to really live on a mountain I would totally adopt new activities.

That reminds me. Here are some pictures I took a few years ago from a trip to Colorado. I went hiking with some friends I was staying with. Enjoy!