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The Sign-of-Our-Times Allure of a Fake Beach Paradise
Digital subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for unlimited access to Texas Monthly. Already a subscriber? Log in. Texas has 367 miles of coastline. The sand may not be pristine, and the water is rarely blue, but until recently, the state’s beaches were generally considered adequate for our needs. What they lacked in sex appeal they made up for in convenience. Of course, convenience can always be improved upon.Earlier this year, I received an invitation to the grand opening of Texas’s “newest beach destination”—and was surprised that the destination in question was the Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort and Villas, a 300-acre compound on the edge of San Antonio. The occasion for the celebration was the Big Spring Lagoon, a newly constructed 2.2-acre artificial…The post The Sign-of-Our-Times Allure of a Fake Beach Paradise appeared first on Texas Monthly.