Okay plain and simple, I am getting my truck back to road trip ready, which means tires, and brakes... Probably change out belts, hoses and fluids while I am in there... But I digress...

Once the truck is ready to hit the road, my wife and I want to go hit the beach at South Padre Island. Now it's been probably 8 years since I camped on a beach (Bolivar Peninsula back in '05), what I recall is a strong gulf breeze coming up after sundown, and constant wind blown sand coming into the tent, and depositing on my head. I want to avoid that this time...

My thought is this...

#1. PVC Pipe, elbows, and tees to make a "frame" of sorts. Place it windward of the tent, anchored WELL into the sand.
#2. To that frame, attach a tarp, such that the frame, and tarp make a slight lean - to with the bottom edge buried in the sand, and facing into the wind.
#3. Park the truck on the windward side of the tent such that the tent is set up between tarp and truck.
#4. Set up another tarp using the truck as a frame of sorts, to keep sand from being blown backwards under the truck and into the tent...

Another option, and not one I am all that certain I can get LOML to go for, although I KNOW it works well, is to build framing using the bed sockets for separator boards, so that I can support a sheet of plywood over the wheel arches, again using PVC and tees, make a frame and rig up a PVC and tarp "topper" for the truck bed. Just blow up the air bed and crash out in the bed of the truck itself. (Great option if I were still single, not sure I could get my wife to go for it...)

So has anyone here, particularly those from the Gulf Coast region, have anything to add, or a better solution to the sand problem? Thanks!