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A takeaway from chasing kayakers up the Texas coast? Our beaches are trashed
One thing I noticed as I chased the 3rd Coast Cowboys Epic Kayak Journey up the Texas coast the last two weeks? Trash. From the first night, when I camped at Mansfield Cut, the passage between North and South Padre Islands, to the finish point at Walter Umphrey State...

I singlehandedly fixed a flat on an F150 and it made me feel like Wonder Woman
Anybody got a truck tire they’d like me to change? I’m still smiling after single-handedly changing a tire on my husband’s Ford F150 pickup truck after flatting out on a remote stretch of two-lane road while chasing kayakers paddling up the Texas coast. I was zipping...

Third Coast Cowboys finish strong at Louisiana border
West Hansen pulled his kayak up the boat ramp at Walter Umphrey State Park in Port Arthur at about 5 p.m. Monday, stepped around a dead fish and greeted the small crowd of family members gathered there to cheer him in. “Well, that’s done,” he said, 13 days of stubble...

Clean shirts, rogue waves, and a family visit for kayakers paddling the Texas coast
It looks like West Hansen and the 3rd Coast Cowboys will roll into Sabine Pass sometime Monday afternoon, completing their kayaking trip from the southern tip of Texas to the Louisiana border in 13 days. The four paddlers - Hansen, Jeff Wueste, Jimmy Harvey and...