Boron, California might be the Golden State’s best-kept secret – a desert outpost where authenticity trumps pretension and where the simple life still exists in our increasingly complicated world.

Florida has a secret it’s been keeping from you, and it’s called Don Pedro Island State Park in Placida – a slice of paradise that somehow escaped the tourist brochures and Instagram influencers.

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