Travel advice requested ...

St. John is as quiet and laid back as you can get, but as Boom said, you are rolling the dice with hurricanes with the entire Atlantic Coast that time of year.

Jekyll Island is very remote and very quiet and no plane would be involved.

http://www.jekyllisland.com/stay/

The Florida ideas would interest me as well.

 

Sounds nice but you might be in a hurricane. If you went last year at end of August you would have enjoyed Issac which folks will recall delayed Republican convention.

 

My eyes, they burn! I'll never unsee that Speedo!

 

Pensacola. You're welcome.

 

I would choose St. John. It's a quiet, beautiful island with some great beaches.

 

If they don't like flying, how is the flight from Kentucky to Hawaii acceptable?

Also, where farther was anyone going to suggest that they could go without a passport? Guam?

 

Hawaii seems effortful, but Kauai may be the most beautiful place on earth.

That said, places like Santa Barbara, San Diego or La Jolla in California might make more sense.

Easiest of all would be Florida. And with the same disclaimers about hurricanes, I'd consider the Florida Keys.

Has anybody asked why no passports? You'd open up Mexico then.

 

I think American Samoa would be the farthest you could go w/o passport.

 

The sands on the beaches in La Jolla is the softest most beautiful sand I've ever been on.

He's correct again on Santa Barbara, and if you do go there take the hour drive to Santa Maria for tri-tip BBQ. Best meat I've ever eaten. Plus there are some cool sightseeing spots in that area -- butterfly grove in Pismo Beach to name one. http://www.monarchbutterfly.org/

 

Panhandle native here and I will happily second this.

Yes, there's a slim chance for a hurricane, but at least if you were on St. George, you could easily evacuate and head inland.

 

Does it have to be "tropical"?

Plenty of gorgeous resorts, with big pools to lounge around in Arizona, or even Vegas.

 

I second the Florida Gulf Coast. St. George is very nice and relaxing. Destin has tons of shopping and is cheap and generally teen free.