Big Bend to San Antonio

From Big Bend it's first up to Fort Stockton, another historic site remembering the battles of the past. The Fort is actually not much more than a few barracks built from stone and the Stars and Stripes in front. So we give that one a miss again and move on to San Antonio. The landscape changes from desert style to farmland and bush, after all those weeks a welcome change to more green colours.

Before San Antonio we go to New Braunfels to visit a Camping World store for some accessories to our motorhome. New Braunfels is a centre of German culture in Texas, they say. We don't find much of culture at all, the town seems past its heydays. We have to visit the oldest German bakery in Texas, of course, Claudia buys a date scone, I'm having a cinnamon role that has been drowned in icing sugar. The first cinnamon role I have not finished as far as I can remember!
So, nothing keeps us in New Braunfels, off to San Antonio for the night.

We stay at a RV park close to the center of town and next morning drive in by bus to see the Mexican market, the Alamo, the famous Riverwalk.....
To keep things short, it is an overcast day, starts raining later, the Mexican market is a couple of small touristy shops in a semi old market hall (mall?), the Riverwalk may be nice in summer for people who like eating out , the Alamo has been restored a little too much, anyway, not for us, feels very much like Disneyland, so after maybe 3 hours we're back to the RV park and leave the next morning to Corpus Christi, on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.