San Antonio, Texas

We sold our car and got a rental car, drove to San Antonio on Friday November 20, speed limit 80!! Missed rush hour traffic. Found our hotel, the Wyndham on the RiverWalk, 3 1/2 stars, got through Hotwire, about $60/night. Took car to airport to return, only got lost once! The hotel was right next to River Walk, truly a beautiful place, lots of tourists walking along, but I got no pics! Rocky and I sure enjoyed it. Saturday did a Hop on Hop off tour, from Groupon, $27 for 2, good for 2 days, first stop: The Alamo. Sat and watched the Nat Geo movie, nice for those who can't stand for very long. Next stop: The Mercado, had lunch at Las Margaritas, great place for people watching, prices not too gougy. Wandered around the market, found open chairs for the free Ballet Folklorico show. Caught the tour bus just in time and back to hotel, for another walk with Rocky on the RiverWalk. Our tour guide/driver was surly and stringing together sentences just to be talking, it was kind of comical and disappointing.

Massive tree in Courtyard of the Alamo, if this tree could talk!

Doorway to Alamo, free but a long line.

Smack dab in the middle of the city.

Horse and carriage tours are available but I am too cheap! That's our tour bus on the right.

Ballet Folklorico dance - the women who took up arms and fought in the war. ( Can't remember which war)

The littlest dancers! So cute!

The caballeros

Churro Santa?

Big Beautiful horse

Wow, I am a sucker for carriages!

Ready to Move to Hawaii

Where are we now? San Angelo, Texas Where are we headed to next? Hilo, Hawaii

We left Moses Lake on July 31st. Mike had a colonoscopy the Monday before that and was diagnosed with colon cancer, an awful 32nd anniversary gift. Had to get to San Angelo, Texas as I'd been offered a 13 week contract job at Shannon Medical Center the day before his diagnosis and had to be making $ to pay those upcoming medical bills. It was a long hot drive. Made it here with 2 days to spare! The people at Shannon were nice to work with. Mike had surgery on 9/11 and did great. Went home on 9/13 and did great for a few days then became septic and headed back to ER on 9/16, surgery had to be redone on 9/17, then of course had all possible side effects of bowel surgery, with nausea, vomiting and all that fun stuff. He did not sleep for 4 days and was fairly entertaining, laughing at the chihuahuas on his feet, picking at stuff in the air etc. Finally got to go home on 9/26. It was a long awful time. But enough about that! We are leaving San Angelo tomorrow for San Antonio, then on to Hilo Hawaii. Woo Hoo!!!! I have a condo (hopefully) rented and sent someone a deposit on a car, I know, never send $ to someone you don't know but it's worth the gamble! If it's a real car when I get there then I won, if it doesn't exist I got ripped off! Stay tuned!

Mike all healed up, with one of the many Ewe's that they have all around town, cattle is not king here!

The front lawn of St John's Campus where I worked at Dialysis clinic and Long term care. This tree was filled with Monarch butterflies! Apparently this is a stopover point on their way to Mexico!

New restaurant in town, I heard the line wound around the block. There is at least 2 restaurants on every block here!

The HEB store, an adventure in grocery shopping, all the dietitians shop here!

Crawfish for sale!

Downtown San Angelo, this bordello was open till the '50's and now is a restaurant with marginal food but great atmosphere.

Looking down the hallway of the bordello, each girl had her own room each with a screen door.

Parlor with original furniture.

What is 6 1/4 cents?

Typical scenery in West Texas, mesquite trees and cactus, every time someone burns a slash pile I start thinking "Mmm Steak!"

These cactus grown everywhere!

Bought this car for $1000 when we got here, sold it for $1000 the day before leaving hre!

I heard this a lot in Texas, usually with a "Y'all" as in "Y'all have a blessed day." It kinda grows on you.