We spent a couple of days in San Anton, home of the Alamo. I visited the Alamo many years ago and was not impressed. Several people warned us not to get our hopes up. However, the Alamo turned out to be the best part of our visit. The key was the guided tour. We learned a lot about the history of San Antonio which, of course, include the battle of the Alamo. I won’t go into the many misconceptions most of us have about the Alamo, but I will say that many of the “facts” I knew about the Alamo were just wrong.

The Alamo was just one of five missions in the San Antonio area. All but the Alamo have active Catholic churches today. Our second most interesting activity was visiting the San Jose mission, which focused on the history of the indigenous people. We enjoyed going to mass at San Fernando Cathedral. founded in 1731, the stone cathedral is immaculate.

We also managed to do visit many other tourist attractions, including the world famous River Walk. My personal favorite totally irrelevant tourist object was Colonel Crockett’s Crooked Conestoga (our name for the period piece outside the Crocket hotel).

I hope this finds everybody doing well.