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San Antonio Slideshow
Travel Blogs from San Antonio, United States
Le Alaaaaamo et la chaleur
... pour la haute technologie. Mais bon, on a vu la fameuse salle de contrôle et une fusée saturne V du programme Apollo. Rendu à San Antonio, on s'est arrêté pour une journée. On a visité le fameux Alamo, qui valait quand même la peine. La ville est ...
American Road Trip
... by Classic Vinyl on the radio which is played on a loop which repeats every few hours. Come back Terry Wogan! We are now in San Antonio and are in a city centre hotel. From our first look around it seems to be a very lively place with plenty to do. ...
San Antonio for the 10th time
... I saw the Alamo and walked the riverwalk, but for the first time I took a horse and buggy ride with my woman. San Antonio on a summer evening is beautiful. We shopped in the riverwalk mall and went to my favorite cigar factory....the Latin Gold Tobacco ...
First Full Day of Classes
We endured our first full day of classes today. So I had the full contingent of grammar and conversation classes. I also did my time in the language lab, completing homework while listening on headphones for an hour. I also did another hour of ...
Texas...
... ) eliminierte, ging man davon aus, dass eine erhebliche Antwort der Drogenkartelle folgen würde. Man riet uns stattdessen nach San Antonio (Texas) zu fahren, was zwar einen kleineren Umweg bedeuten würde, jedoch die Stadt an sich auch eine Besichtigung ...
Remember the Alamo!
... Mexico that resulted in the Alamo battle, and how this resulted in Texas being first independent, then eventually part of the United States. A former elected member of the US senate and frontiersman, David (Davy) Crockett, was killed there along with Jim ...
Great place to relaxing, riverwalk
El camino del rio, river walk in San Antonio is beautiful and big. There are restaurangs and museums close to visit. Very nice walk around the river. By the way, i saw authentic products Elvis used in one of his movies. There is guiness record museum ...
Mariachi Band, Chiropractor, and a Haircut
... late 50s, early 60s. He pushed and cracked and now I'm good to go. I was planning on getting my haircut this weekend before leaving San Antonio. The South Park Mall has a couple of hair salons, so I got my hair chopped off before returning to MACC. The ...
First Impressions
San Antonio is a busy city. The tricky part was driving into town to get rid of the car. Too many transport trucks flying down the freeway. Di just loves all of these trucks whizzing by here close enough one could reach out and touch. ...
Let the packing begin!!!!
Well only have one day off before we embark, so we best be packing. Paid for parking today and started to collect all the toiletries we need. Already made plans for house and dog ...
Awesome at the SAMA Museum
We really enjoying the San Antonio Museum of Art on the North extension of the Riverwalk. The American art wing is very impressive, but then so is the Egyptian wing, and others. You can spend days at the SAMA because there is so much to see and enjoy! ...
Thanksgiving with the Johnson's and Carlsons
Karen and I went to her Aunt's house for Thanksgiving weekend. We actually drove up to Kalin, Kandy, and Kelsey's house for Thanksgiving dinner. We had a good time. ...
Trip to Texas!
Hubby was having eye surgery down in San Antonio, so we decided to make a small trip of it too, do a little sight seeing- although his sight was a bit blurry after the surgery for a while! ...
River Center Mall and Lucian's Ristorante
Our hotel, the Marriott RiverCenter was connected to the RiverCenter Mall. We'd seen an Italian Restaurant called Luciano's as we'd come in and out and one afternoon we stopped for lunch there. We chose a table outside overlooking the river alcove of ...
The Flora and Fauna of San Antonio
We were pleased to see so many pretty green things in San Antonio. Albuquerque is lovely but mostly brown. San Antonio has turned its whole downtown into one big park. We enjoyed the birds both water and air and the flowers. I tried and tried to get a ...
Fr. James Update
... a small steak (with Sprite this time). From dinner it was back to MACC to do laundry in the pay machines in my dorm room. En el fin de semana, you voy a visitar el Alamo con mis amigos de MACC. Nosotromos vamos a la misa en la Catedra de San ...
Shamu Time
Salute to Heros Sea World offer!! Super Fun being able to experience this for FREE! Thanks Sea World for regonizing the efforts made by our ...
Downtown/Riverwalk
Spent the day downtown ~ Family fun! Joy was terrified of Ripley's but actually liked the wax ...
San Antonio
This is a fantastic place... Americans are different from Italians. But in San Antonio I think they had had a latin (mexicans are friendlier) ...
La Fiesta de MACC
... guitar, and drums. They were plenty of fun. Before mass, Chuck and I took a long walk down to Woodlawn Park, the major park of San Antonio about a half mile from MACC. The main feature of the park is a large lake. One lap around the lake is 1.33 miles. ...
River walk and the down town
The river walk is nice. Everything is easy to find. Not too groudy nor pick pockets. I like it. We continued to Catherdal San Pedro. Very simple church. But only to know the graves of the heroes from Alamo are there gave me the same feeling as i have ...
Feb 18 & 19
... to go to Traders Village and I was interested, so we all went. Traders Village is a flea market development on the other side of San Antonio. It has hundreds of storage lockers, which people rent to set up their wares for sale. A lot of it is ...
Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch
Wanted to see the Natural Bridge Caverns, but the ticket counter was closing soon as the tours were full. Went to see Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch instead, which was really mediocre. Left and got stuck in traffic delaying us by an hour to ...
Until We Meet Again
... good-bye for the night as Clare needed to get to bed but we were looking forward to spending the day together tomorrow. San Antonio has an amazing "River Walk" which is a network of paved paths along the San Antonio River. It goes for ...
Drek! Scheduling and packing
Moving today to a new location - Houston, for a month. I think I've explained that I have to stay put for a bit in order to get my visas and also attend to yearly things like physicals, etc. While I would ...
Visit to the Alamo
I arrived in San Antonio at about 6pm on Saturday 12th April. Apparently clickly through all of the 'yes please book my car' options on the Hertz website just means that you might want the car and they don't actually book it until you turn up at the desk ...
Day of Rest
... the street. We are permitted to use the computers in their library for Internet access. I then went to see "The Confederate States of America," a mockumentary/satire about racism. "CSA" is a film about a film about the history of the USA supposing the ...