Vacation !!...San Antonio, Texas

 

Photo by Mark W. Laughlin

 

Boat ride on the San Antonio River...

Took a little vacation last weekend.  San Antonio, Texas, is about 3 hours west of Houston by car.  We (me, Bren and youngest son) had been thinking about a flying vacation trip, maybe to the Northeastern USA, or maybe England and Scotland.  But, on a VERY long flight home from Korea a couple of weeks ago, I started thinking…

Photo by Mark W. Laughlin

 Birds at Sea World

(a) I really do not look forward to another long flight, even if by choice;

Photo by Mark W. Laughlin

and

(b) if we took a vacation closer to home, maybe my older son, daughter-in-law and grand-daughter could join us.  Bingo…San Antonio…local, plenty of things to do, and I can pay for hotels with hotel-points !  We all went and it was fun !!

Photo by Mark W. Laughlin

 

Sea World has rides too...

Photo by Mark W. Laughlin

 

Photo by Mark W. Laughlin

 

Photo by Mark W. Laughlin

 

...plus marine and not-so-marine wildlife.

Photo by Mark W. Laughlin

 

Photo by Mark W. Laughlin

Sunday we drove over to a local drive-through wildlife park. 

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The cactus were starting to bloom at the Alamo...

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...the cradle of Texas liberty .

 

“Be silent friend

here heroes died

to blaze the trail for other men.”

 

 

 

 

So, check out San Antonio, including:

Sea World - San Antonio

Natural Bridge Caverns Wildlife Park

The San Antonio River Walk

The Alamo

 

 

 

Take care,

- Mark W. Laughlin

 

 

 

 

 

Photos - Favorites

 

Howdy all !

 

As I have mentioned, my time is limited when I travel.  Usually, I’m on business and only grab an hour or so here and there to take a walk and shoot a few photos.  So sometimes, I don’t get good light, or sufficient time, and the photos suffer. 

But, since we have several new “WrittenPost Friends”, I thought I would post some links to the posts where the photos came out well.  Of all the photo-posts I’ve put up, these are my favorites:

Baltic Spring  (April 2011)

http://writtenpost.blogspot.com/2011/04/baltic-spring.html

Valencia de España  (July 2011)

http://writtenpost.blogspot.com/2011/07/valencia-de-espana.html

Finland in February  (February 2012)

http://writtenpost.blogspot.com/2012/02/finlandin-february.html

The Great Wall  (June 2012)

http://writtenpost.blogspot.com/2012/06/great-wall.html

Seoul (March 2013)

http://writtenpost.blogspot.com/2013/03/seoul.html

 

Thanks again for visiting WrittenPost !!

-Mark

Baltic Sea - Photo by Mark W. Laughlin

 

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-Mark

Dawn in Dubai - Photo by Mark W. Laughlin