Texas Highways Magazine

Something About Sand in Your Tires

“You’re going to hate it,” my friends said the first time my husband, Eric, and I planned a trip to Port Aransas. Not exactly the ringing endorsement we were hoping for. But having moved to Austin from Miami in the winter of 2010, by summer we were in desperate need of sand and ocean.

“The water’s…brownish,” they said. Not

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