Comparing the Mountains and the Beach

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Comparing the Mountains and the Beach

I do not like the beach very much personally. I can vacation anywhere I choose to, and I choose the mountains. I prefer the mountains to the beach because the mountains have better weather and are so much prettier than the beach, and because I feel more comfortable and at home in the mountains.

The beach is hot. It is not just your average "Oh no, I'm sweating" kind of hot, but unbelievably, unbearably hot. The mountains, however, are temperate, cool, and comfortable. The weather in the mountains stays relatively steady and moderate. Hurricanes have a strange tendency to hover around the beach; whereas, they seem to be almost repulsed by the mountains. The mountains have a certain feeling of climatic calmness that the beach most definitely lacks.

The beach is somewhat dull in the way of landscape. On the beach there's sand, just sand. Maybe there is a seashell here or there, but mostly just sand. However, the mountains are diverse and vivid. There are more colors in an acre of mountain landscape than in twenty miles of ope...

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