Marc's Blog: texas - 2.5 Days in San Antonio

π 2024-04-10 01:01 in Ntrips, Texas

After Austin (for the 2024 Eclipse), I drove down to San Antonio to visit a few days before flying home.

The texas roads were quite good everywhere I went, and they keep building more:

I had a late night in Austin the previous night (lovely dinner and chat with Marc Antoine), so by the time I arrived at the Alamo and managed to park, it was already 11:00 and a total clusterf. Impossible to get any tour or audioguide or anything. I decided to abort and try Alamo again the next morning.
Instead, I started with the river cruise, which was lovely:

After the river cruise, went to check out a nice local market:

even found a friendly cat :)

While walking around some more, went to check out another poor bridge covered with locks. Silly custom that started in Paris :-

the cathedral is a bit basic, but has a nice projection light show at night

Next, I went to Historic Market Square, lots of nice colorful stores with a clear mexican touch

The last 3 activities of that day are on their own pages:

From the market, took an uber to Hopscotch (clickme for blog page)

Then went to the Tower of the Americas and got stuck up there in a broken elevator :) (clickme for blog page)

and after checking in my SA hotel, went back to the Cathedral to see the 3D mapping show (clickme for blog page)

The next day, I went to Alamo bright and early and did both the audioguide and guided tour (clickme for blog page)

I then drove to the San Antonio Missions National Park, 3 different old Mexican Missions (clickme for blog page)

old, still working, aqueduc

I then had enough time to visit the museum of art (clickme for blog page)

From then, I finished the day by going to the Pearl District, nice to walk around and found a really great FRench Restaurant:

yummy beef, with seared foie gras

As an unusual sighting, I found a drive through Wells Fargo ATM. never had been through one before ;)

For the 3rd and last day, I started with the Japanese Garden and Botanical Garden (clickme for blog page)

And then had just enough time for the Witte Museum (clickme for blog page)

After that, time to head back home:

enjoyed some last BBQ before going to the airport

So long San Antonio...

(in real life, because SFO sucks, they cancelled my flight from SA to SFO, so I had to get an emergency uber back to Austin to catch a very delayed flight to SFO and made it home very late that night.

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