Day 5: Remember the Alamo!
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Today was another light day.
Previous cities are starting to feel like we visited them weeks ago instead of hours or days ago. We left San Antonio about 12hrs ago but if feels like a different day. The Riverwalk was even nicer without rain and we had it mostly to ourselves this morning. We walked a good bit of it again, and then headed to the Alamo. It was a very interesting tour, and the buildings and grounds are really nice. The most interesting part to me was seeing the model layout of the 1836 structure over today’s San Antonio. I really like gardens, and this tour has been lacking in those. However, the Alamo’s grounds were okay.
After the Alamo we headed to an old Spanish Mission – Mission of San Jose. I’ve only visited one other mission – the Mission Carmel in Carmel, CA. This one was much bigger and laid out like a fort almost. The church itself was roughly the same size though this one had barracks almost in buildings along the fort-like structure that enclosed the church and grounds. It was very interesting.
From San Antonio we made our way to Austin. Matilda (our GPS) failed us in Austin. She is clueless with the capital. We got lost a few times which enabled us to see more of Austin than we had planned. We saw quite a few residential areas – gated. I’ve been told we were in the areas that Sandra Bullock & Matthew McConaughey home. We saw both Town Lake and Lake Austin (I’m not sure how to tell the difference other than what part of Austin lies near it – seems like the same river the entire way through town). We also climbed Mount Bonnell to get a 180 degree view of the city and some suburbs.
After Austin we made our way to Dallas – well in between Dallas and Fort Worth to Highland Village. We’re staying with our friend Amanda and her husband Conner (can’t forget Louie too). We had a lovely dinner – everyone except AJ. From start to finish, every course she had was a problem.
We’re spending half the day here tomorrow then off to Amarillo.
Today’s highlights: the Alamo, San Antonio’s Mission San Jose, Austin’s downtown and Town Lake, Austin’s West Lake suburb area (by accident), Mount Bonnell with views of Lake Austin, Highland Village north of DFW
posted by Shannon @ 7.9.06,
1 Comments:
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At September 07, 2006,
Shannon said...
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So many questions - and I JUST sent an answer email, but didn't answer these. Next:
Today was Amarillo; Tomorrow is NM; then into CO.
We begin the meat of the trip tomorrow. In my mind its leg 2, with us seeing lots of sunrises, starting tomorrow.
I wish we could stay places more than one night, but we would have had to see fewer places and THIS vacation was to be GRAND!
