Tag: San Antonio
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Friday 3 December 1999 Highlights: The Alamo, Garden River at night. Today we visited the world famous Alamo. We learned about its long history as a missionary it’s major role in the Texas / Mexican War of Independence. The Texas force was outnumbered 6 to 1 but held on for 13 days. This battle ended…
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Thursday 2 December 1999 Highlights: Garden River Today was decision day, either get a car or get a travel pass to travel around the USA. after checking prices we went for the Greyhound America Pass which at $479 each for three months was great value. While this took most of the day we did visit…
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Wednesday 1 December 1999 Highlights: JFK Sixth Floor Museum. We could not get the AAA membership today so it felt like we wasted a bit of time trying to organise this and purchase of a car. We did however do a lot of walking around Dallas to take in the sites. We visited the excellent…