Long Beach, a 28-mile area of beach, lies in southwestern Washington, and is generally called Long Beach Peninsula. Communities there take you back to old days of a simple life. Here, visitors can relax and enjoy the good of a total rest.
Bird watching
There are different kinds of birds on Long Beach. It's best if you watch them from a distance and don't try to frighten them. The Southwest Loop Route Map can be got through the Long Beach Peninsula Visitors Office by calling l-800-451-2542.
Horses
A popular activity on Long Beach is horseback riding. Two businesses in the city of Long Beach offer guided horseback tours along the beach: Black Country Wilderness Outfitters and Skipper's Equestrian Center. You may also bring your own horse. Among the adventures offered with horses is a wagon ride along the beach, a carriage ride through Sea view or Long Beach, a back country pack trip, or a sunset ride by horseback on the beach.
Camping
RV and tent camping aren't allowed on the beach. Camp fires are allowed within 100 feet off the beach, but must be away from the dry grass.
Swimming and other activities
Swimming is allowed, but you must be careful. The waters are very cold and dangerous. Surfing is advised only for experienced surfers. Beach driving is allowed at certain areas on the beach. The speed limit is 25 mph. Building sand castles, digging sand to find something, riding bicycles and flying kites are also popular activities in the area.
Enjoy your trip to Long Beach, Washington!
At the foot of the Tianmu Mountain in Zhejiang, a homestay（民宿）is attracting travelers from far and wide, which has won architectural（建筑学的）medal at the 2021 German iF Design Awards.
The owners of the homestay are a couple in their late 30s who decided to return to their hometown three years ago. Li Xiumei used to be in charge of a division at a company in Hangzhou, and her husband was a sales director. It was an ordinary situation where Li's husband was on business trips a lot and Li worked overtime on weekends. City life sometimes is not easy.
In 2018, they quit jobs and went back to Dongtianmu village, which lies in a forest of bamboo. The first time they drove into the village was one late afternoon. The cooking smoke was rising from the foot of the mountain, which gave them a very different feeling form the city.
The homestay was built beside her husband's old countryside house. The old house is preserved（保留）, while a brand-new building was built on its side and the whole site is made up of for courtyards. It has been updated to have a hall, a tea room, a kitchen, a dining room. Japanese cherry trees are planted in the east courtyard. A swimming pool is placed in the west courtyard, with a bar located on one side.
Li and her husband love gardening and music, and their new home gives them enough space to continue their interests and relax in the heart of nature. Li wants to share the quiet country life, so she makes her new home a homestay. In 2019, the homestay became an online hit after guests shared their experiences on social media. “The longer I stay here, the more I feel it was the right choice to come back, and this is more meaningful than making money.” Li says.
When I was a boy growing up in New Jersey in the 1960s, we had a milkman delivering milk to our doorstep. His name was Mr. Basille. He wore a white cap and drove a white truck. As a 5-year-old boy, I couldn't take my eyes off the coin changer fixed to his belt. He noticed this one day during a delivery and gave me a quarter out of his coin changer.
Of course, he delivered more than milk. There was cheese, eggs and so on. If we needed to change our order, my mother would pen a note — “Please add a bottle of buttermilk next delivery” — and place it in the box along with the empty bottles. And then, the buttermilk would magically（魔术般） appear.
All of this was about more than convenience. There existed a close relationship between families and their milkmen. Mr. Basille even had a key to our house, for those times when it was so cold outside that we put the box indoors, so that the milk wouldn't freeze. And I remember Mr. Basille from time to time taking a break at our kitchen table, having a cup of tea and telling stories about his delivery.
There is sadly no home milk delivery today. Big companies allowed the production of cheaper milk, thus making it difficult for milkmen to compete. Besides, milk is for sale everywhere, and it may just not have been practical to have a delivery service.
Recently, an old milk box in the countryside I saw brought back my childhood memories. I took it home and planted it on the back porch（门廊）. Every so often my son's friends will ask what it is. So I start telling stories of my boyhood, and of the milkman who brought us friendship along with his milk.
People believe that climbing can do good to health. Where can you learn the skill of climbing then? If you think that you have to go to the mountains to learn how to climb, you're wrong. Many Americans are learning to climb in city gyms（体育馆）. Here, people are learning on special climbing walls. The climbing wall goes straight up and has small holding places for hands and feet.
How do people climb the wall? To climb, you need special shoes and a harness（保护带）around your chest to hold you. There are ropes（绳索）tied to your harness. The ropes hold you in place so that you don't fall. A beginner's wall is usually about 15 feet high, and you climb straight up. There are small pieces of metal that stick out for you to stand on and hold on to. Sometimes it's easy to see the next piece of metal. Sometimes, it's not. The most difficult part is to control your fear. It's normal for humans to be afraid of falling, so it's difficult not to feel fear. But when you move away from the wall, the harness and the ropes hold you, and you begin to feel safe. You move slowly until you reach the top.
Climbing attracts people because it's good exercise for almost everyone. You use your whole body, especially your arms and legs. This sport gives your body a complete training. When you climb, both your mind and your body can become stronger.
Rules on how to be a fit kid
Being fit is a way of saying a person; a person eats well, gets a lot of physical exercise, and has a healthy weight. If you're a kid who wants to be fit, here are three rules to live by.
Eat a variety of foods.
You may have a favorite food, but the best choice is to eat a variety. Taste new foods and old ones you haven't tried for a while. Some foods, such as green vegetables, are more pleasing the older you get. Shoot for at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day—two fruits and three vegetables.
What does it feel like to be full? When you're eating, notice how your body feels and when your stomach feels comfortably full. Sometimes, people eat too much because they don't notice when they need to stop eating.
And over a period of time, overeating can lead to unhealthy weight gain.
Limit screen time.
What's screen time? It's the amount of time you spend watching TV or DVD5, playing video games, and using the computer. The more time you spend on these sitting-down activities, the less time available for active stuff, like basketball, bike riding and swimming.
These rules aren't magic. However, follow them most of the time and you can become a fit kid sooner or later.
A. Listen to your body.
B. Eating too much can make you feel uncomfortable.
C. Ask your parents to help you do your favorite activities regularly.
D. If you eat different foods, you're more likely to get the nutrients your body needs.
E. Drink water and milk.
F. Try to spend no more than 2 hours a day on screen time.
G. There're a lot of discussions these days about fit kids.
A US bus driver is being praised for the way she helped a passenger get some needed assistance（帮助）. In October, bus driver Natalie Barnes started talking with a passenger named Richard. He told her he had been 1 for a week, since there was a big fire in the place where he had been living and his house was 2. When he asked if he could 3 along for the night to stay out of the 4, she agreed. “At some point in our lives, everybody needs help,” Barnes said, “I want to do what I could to help Richard in some way.” At one point during her shift, she took a 5, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and offered to get her passenger something to eat. Richard was 6. “Now I don't know what to say but to say thank you,” he said to Barnes and promised to 7 her back somehow.
She refused, saying, “I want to help you.” But one act of kindness wasn't 8 for Barnes. During another break, she turned to a friend for help, who helped get Richard into temporary（临时的）9.
Barnes and Richard became 10 during that six-hour bus ride. Now he has her cellphone number, and they keep in 11.
Helping others comes second nature for Barnes, who has received lots of praise for 12 service since she worked in the MCTS two years ago. She 13 takes peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on the bus to share with people in 14.
In fact, Barnes did what we all need to do to 15 homelessness: to look out for each other, to care for each other and to work together.
My family and I have managed (cross) the North American continent, from western to eastern Canada in two weeks! I can't wait to share the stories you.
We started from Vancouver in a home on wheels with Dad driving. he has such poor sense of direction that we had got lost many times before we finally crossed the Rocky Mountains to see fantastic view. On the (eight) day, we reached Quebec, where the funniest thing happened. Dad left Mom behind after (get) some petrol and it was not until mom called that we realized it! To cheer my mom up, we (go) to a typical Quebec restaurant for some delicious French food.
Now we're in the very eastern part of Canada. We went on a boat trip yesterday in celebration of our trip. My mom dropped Dad's phone into the sea when seeing an (amaze) killer whale, which drove Dad mad. (luck), we met another family from Quebec who will send some great (photo) of the whale to us.
