San Antonio, Texas. I will admit that John really didn’t want to come here. He said that after being here for basic training in 1963 when he entered the Air Force, he didn’t want to come back. But after looking at a lot of pictures of the River Walk, I wanted to visit. So he did it for me. And it is just one of the many reasons I love him. He tries to please me and he does!
Needless to say but I will- it is quite warm. We have been in the 100+ degrees weather for awhile, but there has been no humidity. San Antonio sits in a bowl surrounded by the hill country so there IS humidity.
Our visit to the Alamo was most interesting. I had not realized the final battle was on my birthday, March 6th. We were not allowed to take any pictures inside. Fortunately, most of the tour was inside and it was air conditioned. We added the audio to our tour and that allowed us to go into the exhibition hall. A lot of historical artifacts were encased here.
They are doing moisture studies, because they are trying to find ways of keeping the walls from deteriorating.
After our visit to the Alamo, we began a two mile trek to get the tickets for our River Cruise. We walked down to the river walk where I thought we could get our tickets. The online instructions were to print your vouchers and take them to this specific place to get your tickets. We kept looking at maps and asking people for directions and we kept going around in circles until we finally discovered where the River Center was. Would you believe it was right next to the Menger Hotel where we had breakfast and not on the River Walk at all? But that was just to get the vouchers printed. We had to go to another place to get the actual tickets. That was down tbd block and across the street. That meant more walking.
When we finally got our tickets, I discovered that not only did I have river cruise tickets, I had tickets for the Buckhorn Museum / Texas Ranger Museum and the Hop on Hop off bus. It was 3:00 pm by them so we were ready to go back to the MOTORHOME.
John had made reservations for us at The Chart House restaurant which is at the top of the Tower of The Americas. It was built for the 1968 World’s Fair. It is a revolving restaurant and the meal was fabulous.
The next day, we started off with the Hop on hop off bus tour. It was a double decker bus. Only the lower level was air conditioned so we chose to sit there. Guess what? It quit working. We got off where the Buckhorn Museum was. This building is a combination saloon, grill, arcade room, and the two museums. Buckhorn started collecting all kinds of antlers and animal heads to decorate the walls of his Saloon. (Right now John is aggravating me about supper and I have told him I want to catch up on this blog,)
When we went into the Texas Ranger Museum, the first part was definitely some history and exhibits about the rangers. But then there were all sorts of exhibits about the unusual- Ripley’s Believe It Or Not exhibits and circus exhibits and then back to frontier exhibits.
Then down to the Riverwalk We had a nice lunch by the river and watched people and ducks.
After lunch, we walked to get on the river cruise. Our guide was comical and knowledgeable. I’m sure it is beautiful at night with all the lights, but I don’t think you could have the same fantastic views of the buildings.
We only walked two miles on this day.
in front of the Alamo