Jesse standing alone at the edge of the Gulf on the white sand of Santa Rosa Beach

The sand really is that white.

Florida

A Season at Santa Rosa Beach

  • First driven2019
  • Photos here2

Our first winter in the van ended the day we reached the panhandle. We meant to pass through Santa Rosa Beach and stayed a season instead: sugar-white sand, the Gulf warming by April, nowhere we had to be. That was the spring we learned the van was also for staying put.

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