Travelers have been chasing the sun ever since Europe's monarchs started constructing gaudy summer palaces. It is hard, after all, to relax while shivering.
It is also hard to shiver for months and remain optimistic about life in general. Seasonal Affective Disorder is both very real and entirely indicative of mankind's deeply felt need for sunshine. Doctors now prescribe flights south and with good reason: Warm temperatures courtesy of global warming have made winter a bleak, grey affair in the Northeast, where a little sun and snow used to temper the January blues.
Unfortunately, our need for sun is so universally agreed upon that the number of sun seeking travelers has -- facilitated by the cheap flights that turned Caribbean playgrounds of the rich and famous into destinations for the barely solvent -- exploded. Fortunately for savvy travelers, the diversity of popular warm weather destinations has remained lackluster. It can be hard to tan in Cancun thanks the the dark shadow of the bikinied crowd, but the beaches near Tangiers are wide open.
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