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San Antonio Slideshow
Travel Blogs from San Antonio, United States
"Desde la puerta de la iglesia"
... "serious" to be overrated and often unnecessary. This is why I've come to accept that I will never be president of the United States or CEO of a major corporation so as of today, I am giving up those dreams. I was really trying to ...
Faith Healing on the Sunset LTD
The Sunset LTD runs from New Orleans to Los Angeles. I made a bit of a change of plans and decided to stop in San Antonio, because I figured it would be easier and safer to cross the border there. It would mean that IŽd be stuck in San ...
The Oldest Grist Mill in Texas
... hundred years.. The mill has been operational since 2001 and produces flour five days a week (Monday and Tuesday closed). Pioneer Mills on San Antonio furnishes the wheat and we give the flour back to them. They, in turn, donate it to farmers who feed ...
Some Texan contrasts
... Gruene Hall, a dance hall built in 1828 and still operating. It was a bit like the set of a Western. Our next stop was San Antonio, site of the famous Alamo siege in the Texas Revolution in 1856. Having visited the Texas museum in Austin, we knew quite ...
Shopping!!!
Ahhhh a lay in!!! Was the first up and showered.... slowly and I mean slowly the rest of the team made an appearance..... the looks summed up the night and Andy, bless him couldn't even face the day..... while waiting for the group to get ready, ...
Sea World
Today we drove about 300 miles (yeah not far for Americans!) to a very latin city in Texas called San Antonio. Here a couple of my cousin's friends live here. We stayed with them and their cute little nipper for a couple of days in their rather large ...
Flying High in San Antonio
... Air Force bases, (Lackland, Randolph, Kelly, and Brooks) the casual observer would not think that the origins of aviation in the United States made a major impact to the city. Less than ten years after Orville and Wilber Wright flew their first ...
how far is pharr? far
We saw missions the names where mission San Juan,San Jose,Concepcion.they where built in the 1700s They still have church service today. We also saw the Buckhorn Saloon it is a old cowboy bar.The saloon had stuffed animal heads. After that we ride ...
The long trip home
... listed and we were kept updated (a novel concept) as to the conditions and all. About 1 in the morning, the plane arrived from San Antonio! It was a amazing. They had to find a crew which took a while but suddenly about 2 we were put on the ...
Back Home
As you may have noticed, this trip was very different from our last few. Our last major trip, Europe 2005, was easier going and afforded us more free time to blog about our experiences and misadventures. By the time we made it back to our ...
my travels
Off we go into the wild blue yonder! US Air Force basic training. From hippie non-conformist to respectable piece of US Government property. They even tagged us so they could keep ...
Schlitterbahn, A/C and the San Antonio Riverwalk
... a vast amusement / waterpark in my bathing suit! It was a great way to celebrate Chum's birthday (1day early). On to San Antonio and our first big Texas freeway. We pulled into the parking outside the St. Anthony Hotel looking like some hillbilly ...
The Alamo...
Hello all.. I made it to San Antonio yesterday and decided to stay an extra day here. I wanted to see the Alamo plus the riverwalk area downtown and it was pretty neat. That's the good news!!! Now for the bad news!!! I pulled off of I 10 yesterday ...
Remember the Alamo
... leave for west Texas, tomorrow and time is precious, because we're hanging with my sister-in-law, Sara (two year resident of San Antonio), while in town. Thanks to our local tour guide, we surveyed The Alamo, Riverwalk and Taco Taco Cafe, our first ...
Ahhhhhh Green!!!!
... ! Don't ya love the "Don't Mess With Texas" signs on the garbage cans there??? Little play on words... I drove though San Antonio with some heavy prayer going on! Buzzzzy town! I did a big "AMEN" and "AWOMEN" after getting though ...
Best Wurstfest in Texas
... for a Texas-sized donut. Afterall, as all y'all know, "Everything is ..." Watching a Thanksgiving parade at the San Antonio Riverwalk was definitely a first. For once in my many years, I came to understand why they called the ...
Playing house in San Antonio
... . We spent a good deal of time there last year, and we deemed it one of our favorite cities in the country. Since then, San Antonio has added a new attraction in the form of our friends Steve and Ashley. You may remember them from first semester, when we ...
San Juan de Capistrano
... the stones of the walls of the town. Only the church buildings remained intact under the auspices of the diocese of San Antonio. My sons and daughters still live today. Germans, Poles, and other immigrant groups of people moved into the ...
More prep for trip
Thomas, Supa, Elise, and I have been having a good visit... they finally got some much needed rain. We leave 6am Thursday morning... this computer is using dial-up and IE, so it's different, not the connection I am used to. There is no accessible WiFi ...
San Antonio and shepherds pie
Drove to San Antonio today. Didn't have too long there, so me and Neil went to the Alamo then did the boat cruise along the canals that go through the city. We then had a drink in a bar called Dicks (it just had to be done!!) It was quite exciting that ...
The morning of departure
So here I go again and this time I have a travel partner, Aimee. It has been a hectic few weeks trying hard to get everything together for this trip around the world. Some parts of this trip are more planned than others. One leg in particular is planned ...
Staging Days...
The drive through the night gets us to San Antonio where the plan is to make a stop quick to acquire a few supplies and a stretch after 24 straight hours on the road. An anticipated cameo turns into a week in Texas after more closely inspecting an ...
Texas IS Big!
... Alamo set. The original Alamo is definitely present as pictured in our minds, yet it is situated in down town San Antonio. Thankfully, it is well preserved, safely enclosed by a beautiful "Alamo Plaza" and considered a "shrine". ...
The Alamo: the rest of the story
... and formed the DeZavala Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas; an the attempt to preserve the mission heritage of San Antonio. Remember, at this time women had little and/or no rights at all. DeZavala approached Clara Driscoll, a wealthy ...
Long Weekend in San Antonio
... routes would take us in and through everywhere but this city. Lately, however, we can't avoid it. When we first arrived in San Antonio, if you remember, we toured the missions and the Alamo, the Riverwalk, and the King George district. But ever since ...
San Antonio, Tx
... back to Ciudad Victoria for 1 night. Yesterday we headed for the US border-we crossed over, and drove 300 miles more to San Antonio, TX. Yesterday was a very long driving day- we started driving and saw lots of Mexican Army. We had a Mexican military ...
Prussians
I went with an AIA preservation tour to visit the home of recently deceased Walter Mathis, in the King William Historic District. The main entry street into the neighborhood was named after Kaiser Wilhelm I, King of Prussia in the ...
San Antonio, Texas - Remember the Alamo?
... even though we had both been there before. On Wednesday morning, we got started early (for us!) and headed into downtown San Antonio, expertly led by "Satellite Sally", our GPS System...we've become very dependent on her instructions to get us anywhere ...
Is this the way to Amarillo? (Or San Antonio?)
... four wonderful days in Big Bend, and a few crazy windstorms, we got back on the road across Texas, following route 90 to San Antonio. Along the way, we were stopped twice at Border Patrol stations where Mike had to show his passport to prove that we ...