San Antone, Yo
Posted by: Isabel in 2009 "Housing Optional" Tour, tags: texas, the alamoYou guys, moving is horrible. I can’t articulate exactly why, but I can tell you that the sum of a move is a million times more horrible than its horrible parts. Now, this may not be the fault of the move per se, but part of the problem for us is that we tend to do things at the eleventh hour, so for our first night of our new housing-optional lifestyle, we didn’t want to try to go really far away or anything. However, we did need a place to chill out and recover for a few days. It was definitely the right decision, as we found ourselves making our last trip to make a deposit in storage at, like, 9:47 pm. And they close at 10!
Anyway, we’ve both been to San Antonio separately before, but we decided to visit again, and I think it’s pretty obvious why we came. Remember?

I’m pretty sure a pilgrimage to the Alamo is required of every Texan. DON’T FORGET IT.

So, the thing about the Alamo is the thing about any battlefield-turned-park. It’s the juxtaposition of knowing it was the scene of a completely horrific, bloody nightmare pitted in your brain against the lovely tranquil garden into which the site has been converted. Kind of weird, right?

Anyway, other than that, we’ve been walking around the riverwalk and sleeping. Both of us are physically exhausted! But this has been a rejuvenating couple of days, and we’re ready to move on tomorrow to… well, we haven’t decided yet. But we are heading west!
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West?!? How far west are you going? You know you always have a place to stay here! Kim and Tony said our hideaway couch was very comfortable (it helps when you throw a memory foam on top). The weather is GORGEOUS out here right now
Oh, not that far this time … we have a previous engagement in Houston next week! But maybe some other time!
WOW! Great pics on this site. Housing optional sounds very exciting!!! Will definitely be follwing this…have fun and be safe!
I like the riverwalk (most specifically the wondrous cheese enchiladas and various margaritas available there), but it is weirdly Disney-esque, don’t you agree? Different than the weirdness of the Alamo, though. I especially found the Alamo gift shop to be disconcerting… it is one thing to build a lovely garden and memorial at the site of a battlefield, but then to sell cute little fingerpuppets of the people who killed each other, alongside barbeque sauce commemorating the event… creepy.