Some people love beach vacations. They go to all-inclusive resorts, sip fruity drinks with umbrellas, get their hair braided and return home with drunken, hazy memories of how they got those awkward tan lines. Others ride horses along the shore or camp in the sand. And while some people may knock beach vacations as “inauthentic travel” or an activity for “tourists” and not “real travelers,” the beach is a beautiful place.
You can take a beach vacation and still experience culture, explore new places and, yes, sip fruity drinks while getting uncomfortably sunburned. So, don’t eschew the beach or let anyone put it down as frivolous. Just be sure to put on some sunscreen.
