So, with heavy hearts, we head out from Bryan, Texas. Our route plan is to avoid extra long days, with stops to see things across the country that we might not get to see otherwise. So, with some help from some online guides, including roadsideamerica.com, we start our trip heading southwest to San Antonio. We knew about the river walk, but didn't know how cute it would be. Guys, take a tip, a walk along the San Antonio river walk can be very romantic.
We very quickly dubbed it the Venice of Texas, though others have called it that as well. We ate diner at one of the oldest river walk establishments, a mexican place, with a mariachi band, and ducks that begged for food. Little motorized tour boats would come by, tour guides calling out various sights. Some of the boats were dinner cruises, some were full, others contained a singular tourist. A slow walk up and down the river walk seeing all the nooks and crannies, and a quick shopping trip for souvenirs, and observance of the variety of birds bedding down along the river bank. Well, good except for the bird that pooped on my head.
A good night of rest and on to the Alamo. The Alamo is a little bit of a let down. The building you see in all the pictures is the Alamo mission. Frankly, the the mission building is quite small, like a good sized house. Not much had been done to preserve it though the years, it was used as a storehouse for a long time. Though there is some effort to restore some of the original paintings on the wall, many of the artifacts are if not replicas, articles that were not items from the battle of the Alamo. There's also a lot of rah rah Texas stuff, which is funny because the independent Republic of Texas only for 10 years. But there is a very cool deco style monument to the "Heros of the Alamo" outside the Mission.
And let's not forget across the street, the wax museum and Ripley's believe it or not attracts blasting eurodisco music at nine am.
But there was more the San Antonio then the Alamo...
So, with heavy hearts, we head out from Bryan, Texas. Our route plan is to avoid extra long days, with stops to see things across the country that we might not get to see otherwise. So, with some help from some online guides, including roadsideamerica.com, we start our trip heading southwest to San Antonio. We knew about the river walk, but didn't know how cute it would be. Guys, take a tip, a walk along the San Antonio river walk can be very romantic.
We very quickly dubbed it the Venice of Texas, though others have called it that as well. We ate diner at one of the oldest river walk establishments, a mexican place, with a mariachi band, and ducks that begged for food. Little motorized tour boats would come by, tour guides calling out various sights. Some of the boats were dinner cruises, some were full, others contained a singular tourist. A slow walk up and down the river walk seeing all the nooks and crannies, and a quick shopping trip for souvenirs, and observance of the variety of birds bedding down along the river bank. Well, good except for the bird that pooped on my head.
A good night of rest and on to the Alamo. The Alamo is a little bit of a let down. The building you see in all the pictures is the Alamo mission. Frankly, the the mission building is quite small, like a good sized house. Not much had been done to preserve it though the years, it was used as a storehouse for a long time. Though there is some effort to restore some of the original paintings on the wall, many of the artifacts are if not replicas, articles that were not items from the battle of the Alamo. There's also a lot of rah rah Texas stuff, which is funny because the independent Republic of Texas only for 10 years. But there is a very cool deco style monument to the "Heros of the Alamo" outside the Mission. 
And let's not forget across the street, the wax museum and Ripley's believe it or not attracts blasting eurodisco music at nine am.
But there was more the San Antonio then the Alamo...
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