The Alamo and the Emily Morgan towering over it

The Alamo is in the middle of a lot of modern SA, but I suppose its own greenery (we couldn't spot it from our hotel situated behind the front here) and the historic hotels help to temporarily forget that fact.

The city was the state in this case! So, what’'s in a city?

September 14th 2010
Here comes the entry on Texas, our 28th state in the Union. I have now seen some of it, but the thought that continues to nag me is that I saw exactly one city. That’s out of the 268,601 square miles that are available. I don’t want to start off my entry of the 2010 Birthday Trip with mere complaints, though, so let me tell a few stories instead. My mom and I took off and made it to San Antoni ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more

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