Blogs from San Antonio, Texas, United States, North America - page 25

After we landed in San Antonio and got to our rental car, we went to go look for a Spurs jersey for my son. We ended up at North Star Mall. We saw a couple, but he wanted a particular player and these stores did not have it. We decided to have a quick bite to eat there before heading down to the zoo. Although, no trip to San Antonio is complete without driving by the Big Boots off of 410. I remember being facinated by these growing up everytime we came to San Antonio. So drove down to the zoo. Unlike the Dallas and Ft. Worth zoos, parking is free. We saw about everything, except the Reptile Exhibit. My son decided he was scared to go inside and I can't say I tried to hard ... read more

Motorhome News from North America 36 15th - 28th February 2007 The state of Texas What is it about this little bit of Texas? We might be in the south, but the familiar, ‘How y’all doin,’ greeting has all but vanished, replaced by a wave and a friendly, ‘Hello’, or, ‘Good morning’, as we pass complete strangers. It’s a fact that most of the people we meet here are from far away, from the northern United States and Canada where the cold and damp gets to the bones in the grip of winter when grey hair eventually forces you into retirement, and dreaming of warmer climes interrupts the slumber on a nightly basis. Southeast Texas is not a pretty place, the Rio Grande has virtually silted up and no longer discharges into the Gulf of Mexico, ... read more

Texas didn't make a great first impression on us. There was mile after mile of flat, boring landscape and horrible roads, without so much as an interesting billboard to look at. Occasionally there were houses trying to outdo each other with the number of rusted-out vehicles contained in their yards. We spend the first night in a hotel near Baytown, just east of Houston, entertained until the wee hours by a troupe of drunken red-necks (this is not an idle insult - one of their trucks sported a sticker to that effect) on the balcony above our room, flicking cigarette butts down onto our Green Gator (as our RV is affectionately known). The following day, we decided to investigate the coast and drove down to Galveston and along the off-shore islands southwards. The weather didn't help ... read more

I thought I would be able to outrun the weather front and make it to the other side of San Antonio before it hit. I was mistaken. Twenty more miles and I would be able to leave today for NOLA, but as darkness fell on San Antonio yesterday, the weather took a turn for the worse. By the time I drove into NW San Antonio from Tucson on I-10, ice was already starting to accumulate on the roads. I-10 was closed and I couldn't make it to the hostel, so I stopped at the intersection of 1604 and I-10 for the night. In the morning, it had only gotten worse. My alternate route out was closed, I-10 was closed and I did not want to take the chance of getting stuck on some unknown surface road ... read more

Day 3 - Emporia, KS San Antonio, TX Yahooo, yippee 150km down the Kansas Turnpike, I was in heaven, (I do believe I was a race car driver in my previous life, Sandy can attest to that). Nebraska and Oklahoma again were pain free, exiting free, but not snow free. I believe it was about 30miles north of the Texas state border when we finally could not find anymore snow and believe me I was looking as I just could not believe that snow could travel this far south. 30miles (30miles is 30minutes of driving = half an hour = you can drive 100km per hour) = +/- 50km, therefore 30miles = +/- 50km don't ask :) we did not know the conversion so I had to make up my own. We grossly under estimated ... read more