Thanksgiving on South Padre Island is a strange and wonderful thing if you grew up doing it somewhere cold. The turkey is the same. The pie arguments are the same.
The forecast says 40 percent. Now you’re refreshing it every hour. We know the feeling. You booked a beach ride weeks ago. Now the trip is here. And there’s a
Plenty of beach riding operations around the country shut down for part of the year, either because the weather turns or because the tourists go home and it stops being
Most people who ask us about the Moonlight Ride at South Padre Island Adventure Park have already decided they want to do it. What they really want to know is
Halloween falls on a Saturday this year. That’s great news. It also means a whole day to fill before anyone gets near a bag of candy. Kids on Halloween morning
We get this question at South Padre Island Adventure Park constantly. Usually the night before. Fair enough. Most people haven’t been on a horse since a pony ride at a
Every fall, a certain kind of conversation happens in San Antonio and Austin kitchens. Summer has finally broken and the calendar has a free weekend in it. Somebody says the
Something shifts on this island in October. You notice it first on Padre Boulevard, where the summer traffic seems to evaporate over a couple of weeks. Then at the beach
Here’s something about this park that sounds like an error and isn’t. A seven-year-old can ride a horse along the beach here. That same seven-year-old may well get turned away
You have the ring. You have a vague notion involving a beach. That’s where it stalls for most people. The version in your head is the two of you alone
You’ve passed that turnoff a hundred times. Everybody down here has. The island sits so close it stops registering as somewhere you’d actually go, and starts feeling like a thing
There’s one person on every list who defeats you. Not because they’re difficult. Because they already own everything they want, they buy it themselves the moment they think of it,
Most people assume the evening ride is the morning ride with better lighting. It isn’t. The two go to different places. That single fact settles this argument for a lot
The thing stopping you is not the horse. It’s the picture in your head of what riding a horse involves, which almost certainly came from a film, and which features
Labor Day does something strange to this island. One weekend the beach is shoulder to shoulder and the causeway backs up past Port Isabel. By the following Wednesday you can
Every October the Valley starts refilling. Plates from Minnesota and Manitoba and Iowa appear in the same parks they left in April, awnings come back out, and by the second
Capture the thrill, embrace the joy, and create memories that last a lifetime. Let every laugh, every splash, and every sunset become part of your story.
