that's random... Now i'm in silver spring... not too sure how far from the beach, but considering you can never be very far from a beach in maryland (considering it is a small state which is split in half by the chesapeake), i'd say i'm close.
I grew up in calvert county (maryland), which is a peninsula... almost every community has it's own beach. We used to go to the beach at Calvert Cliffs (nuclear power plant). Oddly, I hate the beach and never learned to swim, despite always living so close to water.