Feeling like I deserve to be on a beach today. Feeling like I want to be on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, or maybe on the rocky shores of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Perhaps walking along the water with my friend Beth in her small town in Rhode Island or laying on a water trampoline off the coast of the British Virgin Isles as my son bounces around me. Yes, any of those would work today. Instead, I wrote my name in the sand on the side of the road, while I walked incredibly close to my neighbor’s sprinkler to get hit in the face, like when the waves come at you out of nowhere. Yeah, that’s a thing I did. So today, in honor of me wanting to be at a beach somewhere, here are a list of beaches I have been to that I would love to go back to again, right now, at this moment. Any of them will work, because at this point, let’s be real…

• Maho Beach, Sint Maarten
• Folly Beach, Charleston, South Carolina
• Lullwater Beach, Panama City, Florida
• Emerald Isle, Outer Banks, North Carolina
• E-Beach Little Creek, Norfolk, Virginia
• Ocean City Beach, Ocean City, Maryland
• Pitcher Point Beach, Gulfport, Mississippi
• Key Biscayne, Miami, Florida
• Huntington City Beach, Huntington Beach, CA
• Playa Pena, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Juniper Point, Salem, Massachusetts
• Surfside Beach, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
• Cable Beach, Nassau, Bahamas
• Coronado Beach, Coronado, California
• Whitecap Beach, Corpus Christi, Texas
• Newport Beach, Newport, California
• Beavertail State Park, Jamestown, Rhode Island
• Sandbridge Beach, Virginia Beach, Virginia
• Ocracoke, Outer Banks, North Carolina
• Biloxi Beach, Biloxi, Mississippi
• Cypremort Point Beach, Cypremort, Louisiana
• Daytona Beach, Daytona Beach, Florida
• Wrightsville Beach, Wilmington, North Carolina

This is not an exhaustive list. We are beachgoers. Always have been, always will be. So many more to see. So many more to dream about. One day. Where would you go if you could go back to one of your places?

M.