re: San Antonio -- yeah, i think it was Dick's Last Resort that had the ad up for "bloody mary + mimosa".
i don't think "romantic" is the word i'd use, but then i'm pretty anti-romantic. i did have a fine afternoon sitting at the jazz cafe, eating tasty food and mocking the tourists. (yes, the irony, i get it.)
l_stboy did point out some of the highwater marks on the walls, and explained some about the flood control measures, so yeah, it was kinda sorta a river. and i'm glad that they at least put the river under open air and made it so that people could walk alongside it and have a sense of the water moving through the city. and it was a nice place to sit and be chill, once i got through the crowds and through my anti-crowds-claustrophobic feeling that i was carrying over from the Alamo. but it's a very, very tamed sort of river.
re: new walls at the Alamo -- ah well. the oak tree helped, at least, and i found a little walkway to sit in that was obviously newish, but it was still stone and old cement and juniper beams across the top, and an ironwork gate that was done reasonably well; even though i knew it wasn't "old" and "the original Alamo"...that's not quite why i was there, and not why it made me feel a little more at peace. it was well-done, and it had less of the theme-park feel to it, and there is an extent to which even if places are only renewed in the form and feel of what was there before it still carries some of the weight of the years and history. *shrug* or maybe i'm just making all that up, but in the end i found a bit of the place that i liked, that i fit into, and that's what mattered more to me.
also, i was amused to be reminded that some fair number of the people who led the last stand at the Alamo were from South Carolina. we seem to be good at that kind of stubbornness, for better or (often) for worse...
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Re: San Antonio
Date: 2006-03-28 08:59 pm (UTC)i don't think "romantic" is the word i'd use, but then i'm pretty anti-romantic. i did have a fine afternoon sitting at the jazz cafe, eating tasty food and mocking the tourists. (yes, the irony, i get it.)
re: new walls at the Alamo -- ah well. the oak tree helped, at least, and i found a little walkway to sit in that was obviously newish, but it was still stone and old cement and juniper beams across the top, and an ironwork gate that was done reasonably well; even though i knew it wasn't "old" and "the original Alamo"...that's not quite why i was there, and not why it made me feel a little more at peace. it was well-done, and it had less of the theme-park feel to it, and there is an extent to which even if places are only renewed in the form and feel of what was there before it still carries some of the weight of the years and history. *shrug* or maybe i'm just making all that up, but in the end i found a bit of the place that i liked, that i fit into, and that's what mattered more to me.
also, i was amused to be reminded that some fair number of the people who led the last stand at the Alamo were from South Carolina. we seem to be good at that kind of stubbornness, for better or (often) for worse...