There are color-changing leaves and some frigid beaches, and the swamps of Florida are serene and -- oh, who are we kidding?! It's incredibly painful to be anywhere but the West Coast, because let's face it: we're the best coast.
But the predicted time of impact came and went, with waves only a few feet or even just a few inches taller than normal spotted in places as distant as the beaches of Sydney, Australia and Russia's frigid Kuril Islands.
It would be far too easy to visit Africa's southern-most city solely for its white sandy beaches and turquoise, although frigid, waters.
Escaping into the frigid waves and icy, seal-covered beaches is the perfect way to beat the heat creeping up on the States or to just tune out to on a Friday afternoon.
To avoid being merely reportorial, she did set the events in an unidentified year, date them by the Hebrew calendar and paint an Israel afflicted by an epidemic of "Saudi flu" and a winter so frigid that the ocean freezes at the beach resort of Eilat.
As a lifelong resident of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, Gary Atlas would always enjoy seeing the robust old Russians marching up the beach, dripping and content after a frigid dip in the wintry ocean.
Primarily known for their world-leading wet-suit technology, the company's founders Doug Warbrick and Brian Singer first intended a crude rubber suit to do no more than keep surfers from hypothermia in the frigid winter waters off the coast of Bell's Beach on the Victorian coast south-west of Melbourne.
It's frigid, communal, charming, and when you don't have a beach, you do the best you can, right?
FRIGID winter temperatures have just arrived in the Northeast, and beach-ready bodies are thousands of sit-ups away.
At age 81, Mr. Gosh runs on the beach every morning, then takes a dip in the sometimes frigid Atlantic.
