Thursday morning, Oct 21, found us heading north to San Antonio. The motel we chose was right alongside the freeway - should be easy, wouldn't you think? Not in San Antonio - we took the exit that Miss Aggie told us to, and then while we continued to try to follow her confusing directions, we managed to get right back on the freeway. While we gnashed our teeth complaining about our inept GPS system (certainly not our fault!), we determined that it was the crazy snarl of a freeway system that was mostly the problem. We finally made our way to our motel and wisely ordered our dinner to be delivered rather than try to navigate to a restaurant. The next morning on our way to the Alamo it wasn't a whole lot better - neither was our exit from San Antonio after our visit to the Alamo.
We did enjoy our visit to the Alamo - it wasn't quite what I had expected. I certainly was surprised that it was in the middle of a lot of very large buildings, hotels, etc. I thought it was really kind of a shame that time and progress overtook this bit of history. I am glad that the Daughters of the Republic of Texas took responsibility for saving this for future generations to visit and learn from. The grounds were beautiful, and as usual, I was fascinated by all of the flowers and trees. Such beauty - in late October! Just not what I'm used to!
We left San Antonio and drove to Fort Stockton, Texas. This was just a one night stop on our way to Carlsbad Caverns, but we did search out the 20 ft X 11 ft roadrunner in town before we left. By far, this was also the best Days Inn we had yet visited - even better than Houston.
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