Feb 9 - San Antono

The Alamo Mision made up part of the fort perimer, and this faced inside the fort.  The fort is a outpost started by Spanish to discourage French encorachment in the 1700's.

Around the left corner of the mission are these nice, big cactii

This is the  back of the mission  In 1836, the buiding was incomplete.  The back wall was the wall of the fort and there was a gun placement.  Today, inside the mission is a museum comemorating historical significance of The Alamo and memorializing the sacrifice of those who died.

Besides the mission, part of the barracs are the remains of the fort.  A couple dozen displays tell the story and significance of the Alamo from it's beginnings.

Inside the Alimo barracs, Beth sneaked this photo of a ring Colonel Travis entrusted to Susana Dickinson to give to his young son, Charles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna_Dickinson

San Antono is knwn for th arts, partly commercial.  The Alamo is near the river walk, which we walked for a few blocks

Cafe's had outside seating and there were a few musicians.

We ate here.

Some walls bore art like this mosaic

Garcia art glass offers glass b lowing demonsrations.  Beth liked their window exhibit

La Antorcha de la Amistad -a gift from the Mexican government to San antonio - 2002

Stayed at Houston West RV Park, Brookshire TX