Hotel Mimosa Riverwalk San Antonio

... 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!!

Day 9
10-16-09
Sea World San Antonio, TX
Well, today has been a very busy hectic and tiring day. We got to Sea World at 10:00am this morning and started trying to explore the area to see where everything was. We went to the Clydesdale Hamlet and walked through it looking at the Clydesdale's and then went to the dolphin cove at feeding time and watched and played with the dolphins and then proceeded to the Coral Reef and Shark Encounter. After ...

10-15-09
Day 8
Padre Island, Corpus Christi, TX to San Antonio, TX

Well, what can I say. What a day. We got up to sunrise over the gulf of Mexico today, drove down to the national seashore and the red tide was still in, with plans to take a bulldozer to the beach in order to remove all the dead fish, eels and anything else that has washed ashore. Almost immediately upon exiting the vehicle coughing fits started ...

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 ...

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.

... the African diamond mining trade and the idea of spending an around-the-world trip on a single piece of jewelry. So he had bought me a Ceylon sapphire. And it's an estate piece, which is even more perfect because I love things to have a history.

So now Dane and I are engaged to be married. We're not sure yet on the where and when, but we're very excited about it.

Some people have been quite surprised to ...

... we've got 2 cameras going, but you'll figure it out. Another reason that I'm up so blasted early, is that there is a train that goes through a few blocks away, about once an hour, blowing his whistle all the way. Yikes! Folks here must get used to it. Today we have on the agenda: taking ...

... Missions". Even today she is the most heavily visited and highly regaled of the four remaining mission communities. During its heyday the walled town housed about three hundred and fifty citizens in sixty-four two room apartments built into the walls surrounding the courtyard. The converts used the living quarters primarily for sleeping and shelter during inclement weather. They had been use to living and working ...

... and emails. We honestly couldn't wait to hit the local internet cafe just to check the website to see who had written us. 1,000 website hits in two months is a surprising and humbling figure. We are blessed to have such wonderful friends and family who care about us. Thank you for being a part of this trip. Thus ends the trip of a lifetime. We will leave you with pictures of the Eiffel Tower at night, shimmering in all of its glory. Enjoy! Until next time...

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.