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…

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 Birds at Sea World

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

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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 !!

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Sea World has rides too...

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

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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