Sandcastle Blog

A vacation can be the most relaxing experience of your lifetime, especially when you follow a few wonderful tips. First, do not turn on your alarm clock. If something needs to be done, it can be done at a later hour, so sleep in and get all the rest you need! Second, choose a beach vacation. Seriously, even as you frolic and play, it is impossible to feel anything but...

As 2023 begins to pick up speed, the calendar pages begin to turn even faster, and before you know it, Spring has arrived! The air is softer during this season, the sun begins to smile gently down on the Texas landscape, and in Port Aransas, the beach continues to be the star attraction! Of course, not everyone is lucky enough to live where we do, but if you are lucky...

Oh, how time flies, and when you look at the partner you chose to spend the minutes of your life, you are lucky enough to know that you wouldn’t change anything important! Sure, you might wish you had a larger bank account, that your jobs weren’t as stressful, and that you could have slowed down the days when your kiddos were little, but knowing that your spouse is standing by...

We all have a list of things we have always wanted to do, our own personal bucket lists that may be in print and are actually checked off as we accomplish each item on the list or ones that only exist in our heads. Sitting outside a café in Paris sipping wine and watching the crowds go by, eating fish and chips during a once-in-a-lifetime vacation to London, or, closer...

In every life, some rain must fall and while rain is good for the crops, trees, and landscape it can put a damper on your vacation activities! In the early days of travel, rainy days often meant being stuck in a dim and crowded hotel room, while children whined, and parents tried not to think about the vacations they used to take before they had kids. During your Port Aransas...

As we enter yet another season of our lives, the brr months (September, October, November, and December!) you may be feeling a mite chilly as you realize that the coldest days are just around the corner. Some parts of the world are already dipping their toes in the first drifts of newly fallen snow and the dread that accompanies an entire winter filled with the cold white snow is overfilling...

Life is busy and we do not often have the time to get away for a full-fledged vacation, but when it comes to Port Aransas, even a 3-day getaway will satisfy your travel-hungry soul! Offering beach days and fishing trips and gourmet restaurants and casual seaside joints where the Po Boys are incredible and the beer is always cold, the only thing better than spending three days in the fishing...

There is a magic attached to the movies, something that goes beyond the pictures and the story on the screen. It is the taste of popcorn drenched in butter, that first sip of icy cold soda, even the fun of being in a large room with dozens of other people waiting for the show to begin. Recliners have taken the place of the fold-down seats that were once commonplace and...

It is hard to believe but summer has almost reached its fiery end and as we all look forward to cooler days and longer nights, you may already be planning a visit to Port Aransas to celebrate the upcoming season! Fall break at school is in the works and although your hometown in the East of the Nation may be a little on the chilly side, in our neck of...

We may be exaggerating a bit when we tell you there are no calories in vacation meals, but the truth of the matter is vacations are when we tend to eat more freely than we do at other times in our life. We order the appetizer at dinner, indulge in calorie-laden, frothy, and delicious tropical beverages, and do not just order dessert at dinner, we fill the counters of our...