Remember The Alamo - Jan 29 - Feb 5

San Antonio was a blast.  At least that’s what Mom says and I have to agree with her.  Although Mom and Jay were going somewhere every day, I got to go for great walks around Fort Sam Houston Army Base where we had the RV parked.  The weather was great with temperatures well into the 70s.  Sometimes I even got to chase my Frisbee.  Life is good.

Mom and Jay went a lot of places.  I heard Mom talking about some place called the Alamo, and Davy Crockett, and Jim Bowie.  Don’t know who they were but Mom and Jay spent the good part of a day learning about them.  There’s an excellent museum/display there that really puts the phrase “Remember the Alamo’ in perspective.  What an amazing series of events….

Mom and Jay are hard to understand sometimes.  They went someplace called the Riverwalk.  Shouldn’t that be Riverswim or Riverboat or something like that?  And I can’t believe it – that makes 2 Friday nights in a row that they were out on the down, eating food, and listening to music.  They seemed to enjoy the walk, and the Mexican Dinner, and the mariachis, the piano bar and all that kind of stuff.  They even got in some birding while they were downtown and watched a prairie falcon chasing the pigeons around.

Can you believe it, we were there for a week and they managed to get in three rounds of golf. Mom seemed happier than Jay about that – I think she is beating him.

They went out several times to the hill country NW of San Antonio with some of Jay’s friends. The country side is beautiful with roads that twisted and wound their way up through the canyons to the heights above. They got to see some white-tail and fallow deer. The white-tail deer came right up to their picnic table to eat some corn - there were four really nice bucks that would eat right out of their hands. On one drive, a bobcat ran across the road in front of them .

We left San Antonio and headed south toward Laredo and the Mexican border. We stopped at Choke Canyon on the way to Laredo and I got to take a nice walk with them while they looked at birds. They’re up to about 155 species of birds…. And they’re looking for the number to continue to increase as we make our way along the Rio Grande River towards the Gulf of Mexico. 

 

Next stop... more birding along the Rio Grande