Jon Anderson
Growing up in Chicago, Saugatuck was one of many beach communities where folks who went to beach communities went. My childhood summers were spent in the cement pond rather than a sandy lakeside beach. In my 20s, I discovered Saugatuck and its sister city, Douglas, located on the Lake Michigan side of …. well ……
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South Padre Island (SPI) is as close as Texas gets to tropical Gulf breezes on sun-kissed shores where the water doesn’t look a mini-marshmallow away from Swiss Miss (Galveston). SPI also isn’t an island. SPI is a city located on the southern tip of Padre Island which is the longest barrier island in the world.…
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We live in a world of Chicken Littles, whereby the reactions to the slightest events become magnified to outlandish and irrational proportions. Mass shooting? Buy a gun. On June 23, the UK voted to leave the European Union and the world has barely taken a breath from all the crazy it unleashed. Me? I take…
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Not a fan of fans? Is the beach just a sandy frying pan? Well, if a hot summer of 65 degrees is paradise to you, head to Houston! Located about 60 miles from Anchorage, Houston, AK., offers the perfect summer experience of long cool days and short nights. How short? Try twilight at midnight in…
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Katrina reminded us that New Orleans is a city built in a bowl, and that when conditions are right, water will fill the bowl. Jiminy Crickets, the city’s drink is a Hurricane. For me, that means looking for a second home on the rim of the bowl. Fortunately, my natural inclination is to live off the…
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We’ve all heard of “the Jersey Shore,” however with 130 miles of Atlantic Ocean frontage, it’s not all reality show goombas and New York City riffraff. The communities of Avalon and Stone Harbor share a barrier island on the far southern New Jersey coast called Seven Mile Island (no points for guessing the name’s origin). …
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