San Antonio was our main focus of the day.

We found a good shaded parking lot but decided to take Pepsi along for our tour of the city. This was definitely a problem for our Alamo visit. A very nice security guard, escorted Ruth and Pepsi off the park area premises and across the street. Martin had a brief visit but then we decided to do a quick walk around the city. An agent for one of the double decker tour bus companies told us that Pepsi was very welcome to take a bus tour with us and that’s exactly what we did.

We learned a lot about San Antonio, its Spanish heritage, the great number of German immigrants that moved into the area in the 1920s, the beautiful architecture and that it had been the capital of Texas before Austin. Unfortunately, the upper level of the bus was too hot and it wasn’t possible to take (good) pictures from the lower level.

After the tour we decided against a visit to the famous Mexican market but to do the riverwalk instead. A young architect created a plan of channeling the river with walkways on the left and right. Today there are beautiful bridges and great restaurants and bars on either side of the river. We saw a Bavarian biergarten serving Hofbräu beer and had lunch at the pet-friendly Lone Star Cafe.

After lunch we walked along the river some more.

Tired and thirsty we walked back to the van in 43C heat, gulped lots of water and then left for Junction, a small town about 200km northwest of San Antonio where we are staying at the Morgan Shady RV Park, right next to a river.