Spending some time in San Antonio, Texas...

 

      After leaving Mustang Island, we headed 162 miles West/Northwest to San Antonio. We had reservations at Travelers World RV Resort on the South side of town with 165 full hookups sites. The park is 99% full every night - many nights it was totally full- very busy place with many people here for the entire winter.

      We toured several missions - the oldest one being The Alamo, established in 1718 as Mission San Antonio De Valero- the first of five missions built along the San Antonio River. We also visited the El Mercado - filled with lots of tiny shops full of colorful Mexican imports and MANY Mexican restaurants to choose from.  We also toured the Texas Ranger Museum and had lunch at the 1881 Texas Buckhorn Saloon. We could not leave San Antonio without walking the San Antonio River Walk and took a boat cruise down the San Antonio River with its sidewalk cafes, lush tropical foliage and boutiques. We also had dinner one night at Rosario's - a Mexican restaurant recommended by several  people in the RV park as being the best Mexican restaurant in San Antonio. It lived up to its reputation - a very good dinner.

      We also made a stop at the Walmart and grocery store down the road from the RV park. The weather has been great - warm -wearing shorts and sandals until our last day in town when the temps dropped from 65 to 45 degrees in less than 3 hours as the latest major cold front moved through the area. The cold temps only lasted for one day and then temps rebounded back to the 70's.