May 24, 2018 We visited the old stockyards in Fort Worth which are no longer used, but are a tourist attraction with lots of restaurants in the old cattle pens. Twice a day there is a small long horn cattle drive down the street for the benefit of the tourists. Between 1866 and 1890, 4…
April 3-8: We visited the Missions in San Antonio – Alamo, Concepcion, and San Juan. One day we stopped in Smithville, TX for lunch on the way to Houston. A day trip from Houston to Galveston resulted in a nice lunch at a seafood restaurant by the Gulf. After a little shopping on Strand street,…
April 1-4: San Antonio – Texas is known for Blue Bonnets, otherwise known as lupines. We found many along the roadsides of Interstate 10 west of San Antonio, I- 35 north toward Austin, around Smithville and Brenham, Rt. 290 on the way to Houston. We also found verbena, indian paint brush, primrose, and a few…
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