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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:
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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:
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After the river cruise, went to check out a nice local market:
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![even found a friendly cat :) even found a friendly cat :)](/blogimg/15/thumb1024_0157_20240410_San_Antonio_Google.jpg)
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 :-
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![the cathedral is a bit basic, but has a nice projection light show at night the cathedral is a bit basic, but has a nice projection light show at night](/blogimg/16/thumb1024_0165_20240410_San_Antonio_Google.jpg)
the cathedral is a bit basic, but has a nice projection light show at night
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Next, I went to Historic Market Square, lots of nice colorful stores with a clear mexican touch
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The last 3 activities of that day are on their own pages:
From the market, took an uber to Hopscotch (clickme for blog page)
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Then went to the Tower of the Americas and got stuck up there in a broken elevator :) (clickme for blog page)
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and after checking in my SA hotel, went back to the Cathedral to see the 3D mapping show (clickme for blog page)
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The next day, I went to Alamo bright and early and did both the audioguide and guided tour (clickme for blog page)
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I then drove to the San Antonio Missions National Park, 3 different old Mexican Missions (clickme for blog page)
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old, still working, aqueduc
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I then had enough time to visit the museum of art (clickme for blog page)
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From then, I finished the day by going to the Pearl District, nice to walk around and found a really great FRench Restaurant:
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![yummy beef, with seared foie gras yummy beef, with seared foie gras](/blogimg/21/thumb1024_0211_20240410_San_Antonio_Google.jpg)
yummy beef, with seared foie gras
As an unusual sighting, I found a drive through Wells Fargo ATM. never had been through one before ;)
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For the 3rd and last day, I started with the Japanese Garden and Botanical Garden (clickme for blog page)
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And then had just enough time for the Witte Museum (clickme for blog page)
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After that, time to head back home:
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enjoyed some last BBQ before going to the airport
![So long San Antonio... So long San Antonio...](/blogimg/21/thumb1024_0216_20240410_San_Antonio_Google.jpg)
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. |