I love to go to the ocean in the winter.... little beach towns are deserted, everything is kind of moody and atmospheric - sometimes a little stormy, but that can be fun too. The only thing you can't do is swim and since I'm not a big sunbather - beach swimmer, but love to walk and explore, I think it's great.

My husband and I did a 3 day weekend down on Oregon's beaches one November - over Veteran's day. It's not really a place I like in the summer - crowded, touristy, tacky but in winter it has a whole different vibe. The only thing is we really do have a lack of sunlight up this way come the darker months.... It will get dark early. We also did North Carolina, along the outer banks in early March - loved it - we basically had the whole place to ourselves and there weren't any mosquitoes yet.