RV adventure travel

A brief visit to San Antonio Texas

We joked, if we ran into the Knights who say Ni and they demand a shrubbery we could give em Texas as there are so many leagues of them there.

Yes, its a big and boring drive to San Antonio. We were racing the sun as we buzzed through Houston after miles and miles of Louisiana swamp and Texas shrubs, we finally saw the horizons of Houston. It was a scenic route through there all right, as the entire Houston Horizon is covered in refineries reaching to the dead heavens bellowing blackness. But the site was actually a welcome one after all of that nothing on Interstate 10.

We buzzed onward though in our race to beat the Sun to San Antonio, we did not. We pulled into my friend Richard’s place an hour or so after sun-set. You see, were were set to attend his wedding the next day. So we chatted, caught up and such that eve, and crashed in the living room.

Neither Fred or I slept too well that evening, so we were both a bit flustered this time. So we got up to head to the Walmart (found thanks to google earth and my wee garmin gps unit). There we got goodies that we had left at home, some nice stuff to wear to a wedding, and other knickknacks.

But we kept our eye out for a place to get Breakfast tacos and there it was: Fajita Taco Place Mexican restaurant. And we proceeded to order up. And I must say that this little Taco place was one of the coolest things in my brief visit to San Antonio. As the Tacos were quite a tasty treat. and the place was really affordable. You got a choice between Corn or Flour wraps, and all kinds of yummy salsas to help flavor and spice things up even more. These wonderful large Taco’s were a 1.39 a piece. Yay for cheap and yummy!

We return from Wal-mart and face stuffing refreshed and ready to take on the task of seeing our friend’s wedding. and wishing them Bon Voyage. (it was a small ceremony with just friends and family and such. ) A cake and drinks afterward and some all night fun and chatting wrapped up the evening.

Then in the morning, it was off to the Beach with us, Galveston Beach that is as we had a line of some tent camping there.

but first it was a stop off downtown San Antonio for a peek at the Alamo and the famed river walk.

I really enjoyed the historical walk around the Alamo. People had made it out to be small, but it was not tiny at all by my standards. and I toured the grounds and took the pictures I could get away with taking. Various signs and documents gave us a run down of the historical value and were educational by filling in cool details, while we also enjoyed the artifacts symbolic of the history. Its a quick visit, and our idea to buzz in and get on our way was going to work out fine.

But alas , we had to go see that San Antonio River walk thing too. So we asked around at the Alamo and found that it was just through that big hotel over there. So we walk under the Hilton and there it is:

• the famed,
• the pinnacle of WhoptieDOness,
• the most Hoidee of the Toidies,
• the oh so hyped (by a number of people),

the San Antonio river walk.

Yes, a number of people had told us how great this was, and how it was a San Antonio must-see given the quickness of our stop over. But I don’t think any of those people took into account our personalities. Ya see, The San Antonio River walk is rubbish. Its like a crappy-ass hotel shopping mall with some fake looking Six-Flags like river stuck in the middle of it. It had tacky over priced shops and bars, and a little tour-boat ride down the wee-bit of river. After the hype, well, Fred and I felt jipped. So perhaps I’ll be one of the few to say, don’t bother with the River Walk.. Take a walk around town and see some of the cities’ cool older architecture if you have time to blow, that is a much better use of your time than hanging around the gimmicky theme-park-wannabe rubbish that is the San Antonio River Walk..

Well we buzzed that town, now it was on to Camping at Galveston Beach, then (maybe) back for another visit to New Orleans for some more fun.

A San Antonio Texas Slide Show:

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