Last month, my family and I hit the Texas coast and visited Port Aransas . I’ll be honest. I hadn’t heard the best things about Texas beaches. Pair that with the beach snob in me of having grown up on an island ( Long Island , but still) and lived in California for nearly a decade, and I was fully prepared to dislike the Texas shoreline. What a pleasant surprise the Texas portion of the Gulf of America (or Gulf of Mexico-whatever you choose to call it) turned out to be, at