Try recalling relaxing memories - perhaps lying on a sandy beach - for a minute or two.
The best place to stay is Paternoster, a whitewashed fishing village with blue-and-red boats on its sandy beach.
In Southern California, you can view snow-capped mountains from a warm sandy beach.
What brings me back is a collection of specifically New England sensations that I associate with the place: free-wheeling a bicycle down a sandy beach road, the tang of lemon on fried clams, the clear green water of the north Atlantic and the pure maritime light.
The latter is a wonderful pick, visible through the trees as you make the short hike over a pine-needle-carpeted trail, edged by a tiny sandy beach (many of the ponds have no beach to speak of), and home to a bevy of quick-footed green frogs and one remarkably tame snapping turtle.
One night after Sandy, I saw footage on the news of a beautiful beach-side house at the Jersey Shore that was leaning over as though its third floor was trying to whisper to the waves.
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Its waterfront is flanked on one side by a row of pastel-hued homes and on the other by a long strip of sandy beach.
Photographer Limor Garfinkle walked through the hard-hit coastal Staten Island neighborhood of South Beach the weekend after Sandy made landfall, wondering how she could help.
Aguas Bravas offers two-day rafting trips on the Acequias and Siniguis Rivers, staying one night on a sandy beach along a calm stretch of the Acequias.
For Ellen Vanacore, a 60-year-old widow who moved to Long Beach in August, it was the morning after Sandy when she saw National Guard Humvees gathering at City Hall.
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