Monday morning we went to tour the Alamo which is in the
heart of downtown San Antonio, and then we took the mission trail south to see
four other Spanish missions. The Alamo
is maintained by the state but the others are part of the National Park Service
and were “closed” though there were Park Rangers on duty at two of them. The
other two are still active parishes so they were unlocked and we were able to
get in.
We went back downtown to see the San Fernando Cathedral and some of the
other beautiful buildings in San Antonio.
We were amused by this sign we saw. Then we did some grocery shopping and went
back to camp to fix dinner.
This morning we went to see the Combat Medic Museum on base
and found it also “closed due to gov’t shutdown” though there was a cleaning
crew there working. We were glad to see
at the Base Exchange this sign: 
After
we did a little shopping there we went back downtown for lunch and walked
around Riverwalk, which is a multilevel shopping mall built along both sides of
the river that runs through town.
We went to the Witte Museum which has a
variety of interesting exhibits from wildlife, art, culture and history of
South Texas. Then we came back to camp to fix dinner and do laundry.
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