Just a few miles into a daunting attempt to hike the full length of the Texas coastline, Chrissy and Jay Kleberg are ruffled. It dawns on the couple that when they hatched their plan to hike all 370 miles of the state’s barrier islands, they had no idea what they were in for. As the afternoon sun beats down, Jay swats away bugs swarming his face. The couple had expected to make good time marching over flat sands, but, peering into a camera he’s holding out before him, Jay explains that since leaving the Louisiana border, where they were dropped off, they’ve been trudging slowly through a salt marsh along a ridgeline composed of crushed shells. “Not much to speak of in terms of sandy…
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