San Antonio

We are ready to leave San Antonio today so let me just tell you what we did here. Our first day we went to the Alamo, the riverwalk and to a mission down the road from our campsite. The riverwalk is a series of sidewalks along the river with veranda seating for lots of restaurants, the perfect place to people watch. The Alamo is where Davey Crockett died along with 186 other Texans fighting against the Mexicans. The mission was very interesting, it became the home for the indigenous people in the area to protect them from the Apache and starvation. There was a church and a grist mill and in the wall were all the 2 room 'houses' of the inhabitants.

Yesterday we went to see Natural Bridge Caverns. This was a really neat cave system that was just full of columns, stalactites, stalagmites, soda straws and flow stone which looks like curtains. It was 21C and 99% humidity inside the cave. The kids found it really interesting. Today is a travel day and we hope to be in El Paso by the weekend (9 hr drive) so we will do that in 2 days.