Crowne Plaza Hotel San Antonio Airport

... home of Gruene Hall, the oldest dance hall in Texas! John Travolta made a movie there and we have ten condos at the Village at Gruene!

Now I am leaving my cosy corner of Texas to return home to Congo where I was born as the child of missionaries!!

... them, splashed with them, rubbed heads, tails, flukes and even floated with them. I am not quite sure what mom thought, but after it was over Dad had said well, I could have done that. He didn't want to when we scheduled it because he wasn't comfortable with being in the water with the whales not being a good swimmer, but afterwords he was acting like he wished he could have done it. After that we went to the showers, cleaned up and headed out. We went ...

... got back to the van the clouds rolled in and rain began to fall. Amazing! We managed to find our way out of the chaos of interstates and highway's and crazy entrances and exits for the highways without much problem but I will complain now about the hotel. Seriously, has anyone ever seen a hotel with an address on the interstate. Well, ours did and when I called because we could not find this hotel for anything we couldn't ...

La história de San Antonio es la historia de sus 5 misiones, siendo la más importante y famosa EL ALAMO, fundada en 1718. Franciscanos españoles se asentaron en estas tierras y las repoblaron, trayendo las costumbres y cultura española a los indígenas que aquí vivian. El Álamo fué donde una pequeña banda de rebeldes murió en una batalla desesperada para independizar a Texas de Mexico. Todas estas misiones han creado lo que hoy es San Antonio.
Hoy es una ciudad ...

... had to catch our flight to Las Vegas very early the following mornng..
Obviously we needed a new camera and replaced the lost one with the next model up at a cheaper price!! So photos are back on the agenda!
San Antonio is a great city with lovely, friendly people and we really enjoyed the company of Sean, Christina and their friends and we would definitely have no hesitation in visiting again..

Unfortunatly at this point in this trip, I was pretty exhausted. I got to San Antonio after a 12 hour drive from El Paso, and was only scheduled to stay for the night. I sadly didn't do anything but go into the hostel and talk to a Scottish guy that was staying there for some time before going to bed to get ready for my next drive.

Not much here, sorry about that guys.

... over having a family and stability. But here we are, five years into our relationship, and we still marvel at one another and how perfect we are for each other. Our relationship is a daily joy. We love each other's company, can't get enough of one another, and can't imagine a future in which we're not together. And suddenly "marriage" doesn't even quite seem enough. They should create a new union for people this in love.

My Journey continues as it should. I know none of you would be able to come to this same conclusion but I end up seeing the downtown historic areas of major cities on weekends. The timing seems to work out that way. I first noticed that "coincidence" during Paul & Alexis' Excellent Adventure. Instead of fighting commuter traffic and for parking spots in cities where that would be a concern I end up visiting these places ...

... I met the cows on the way in. I was shocked that a Texan is also a ranch hand. No, I was not really shocked. To back up real quick, I passed through New Orleans before hooking up with the Stifflers. It's still destroyed. I've attached pictures. Basically, everything is deserted except for the French Quarter. I cruised up Canal St. and then walked down Bourbon St. and had lunch. The bars, strip clubs, and t-shirt shops (the only varieties of ...

Leah and I stayed here on our honeymoon on this week back in 1988 when we were married. Through the years we would make numerous trips to San Antonio and the hill country of Texas camping, river tubing and theme parking/sight seeing. I believe it to be one of the favorite destinations of Christen and Jake as well.