The Blue Ridge Mountains unfold slowly — layer after layer of ridgeline fading into blue haze, a color the range is named for — and that slowness is exactly what makes them a good match for a honeymoon meant to be lived in rather than rushed through.

Most people who come to Catalina Island never leave Avalon... A little farther up the coast, past the harbor traffic, is White's Landing — a small outpost camp on a stretch of beach remote enough to matter. No cruise ships, no buildings, no highways, no crowds — just trees, sand, and water, mountains at your back and the ocean in front.