In San Antonio, we stayed one night at the Traveler Inn, which was about as good as it's broken ice machine. Sorry, no pictures. Fortunately, we only spent several hours of our lives at this place and made it to downtown San Antonio after a big breakfast at Denny's.
We expected the Alamo to be somewhere in an isolated setting outside of San Antonio, but it's actually right in the heart of downtown. It's surrounded by a Ripley's Believe It Or Not, Guinness World Records Museum, wax museum, and a multitude of banks. Nonetheless, the Alamo itself is a very old and rustic place full of American/Texan history. Lots of tourists as you can see in our photo here. We made sure not to include the wax museum in the pic.
Within the Alamo walls, there are all sorts of cannons that were used in the Battle of The Alamo in 1836.
One of the landscapers told us we would find a garden hose right around the corner we could use to cool ourselves down.
He told us we couldn't jump in unfortunately.
Believe it or not, that's not Peter's hair. Davy Crockett hat.
The monument outside of the Alamo celebrating it's defenders.
San Antonio has a beautiful "River Walk" that runs underneath the downtown streets. We took nearly the entire loop and saw these tour boats floating by all the time.
We stopped for a beer. The local beer is shockingly called Alamo.
Along the walk, there was an outdoor amphitheater with a stage on the other side of the river.
After roaming the River Walk, we went to an old spanish mission called Mission Concepcion. There are many of these missions around San Antonio that were built to spread Christianity to the local Native Americans in the early 1700s. Credit to Nati and Jack for informing us about these as they were much less touristy than the Alamo.
This mission was quite a spectacle. So cool to visit these older artifacts that shaped our American history.
They weren't built for Peter.
More goofing around in the historical building.
A picture of preserved wall paintings. We are unsure about their meanings, or if it was simply abstract art, but they we interesting to view.
A picture of the church within the mission. Clearly renovated, but it was still beautiful.
Here is Wolf with the park ranger, Daniel. He was excited that two people were willing to learn a bit more about the mission and about the tools and instruments that were used during that time period. He played a flute solo for us and showed us his custom crafted atlatl. With a goodbye to Daniel, we were unfortunately on our way to northwest Texas.
Fess Parker - "The Ballad of Davy Crockett"
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