brianandisabel.com » the alamo http://brianandisabel.com Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:35:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 San Antone, Yo http://brianandisabel.com/2009/09/san-antone-yo/ http://brianandisabel.com/2009/09/san-antone-yo/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:15:26 +0000 Isabel http://brianandisabel.com/?p=1317 You 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?

the mo, yo

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

the alamo

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?

alamo_garden2

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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