San Antonio is a great predestrian city. You can walk to everything. Or, if you don't want to let your feet to do the walking, there is the On and Off Bus to get your around town. We needed the exercise and it was not too hot so we were going to walk for a bit. We found a parking lot close to the Post Office and very near The Alamo. We paid $17 for 5 hours and we planned to use up every minute.

First stop was the The Alamo. They were filming a documentary in the Shrine so access was limited in that area. To orientate ourselves, we watched a 17 minute film first. Excellent. After the film, we walked through the museum and explored the grounds. Entry to The Alamo is free, but they have an gift shop, which all proceeds goes towards the upkeep of the Shrine. We made a sizable contribution in the Gift Shop.

Afterwards, we headed to the River Walk, which was just a few blocks up from The Alamo. A "cool" way to get in a walk, shop, and eat. We did all three. We walked all the way around the inner circle. The ducks were very entertaining and so were we to the occupants in the tour boats that circle around, especially, one that was loaded with Asians. You would have thought we were famous.... We felt like Tex Mex food for lunch. So we chose Agave Bar on the shady side of the river and were seated right away. We were there around 11:30am. By 12 noon, River Walk was teeming with business people and tourists all looking for the perfect place to eat outside. The food was good.... The cold beers even better.

The ladies we met on South Padre Island told us that we had to visit Fredericksbug, a town nestled in the hills just north of San Antonio. It was settled by German Farmers around mid 1800's. They raved about the peach desserts and the quaint shops, which was just enough to entice us to drive the one hour to get there. Well, it did have a lot of shops, but it was not the "quaint" village dotted with bakeries and more bakeries like Leavenworth WA. Come to find out, peach season ended two weeks ago...so no fresh peaches. There was one bakery and it was closed. But we managed to enjoy ourselves. There was wine tasting and we managed to find something to buy.

We returned to the RV Park with just enough time to cool off in the pool and get ready to go out to dinner. Why cook when you are in a city with a reputation for good eats? Searching the internet for a place to eat, the "Boiler House - Texas Grill & Wine Garden" came up. The menu was intriguing. It included things like Smoked Rabbit Porchetta, Quail Poppers, Bison Meatballs, etc. Why not?? It was located at "The Pearl". We didn't know anything about The Pearl, but we wished we knew about before we went to dinner. The developers re-vitalized the old Pearl Brewery into a community hub comprised of shops, eateries, living space, and the Culinary Institute of America. It is a community within a community.

Getting back to dinner.. We had a hard time finding it when we got to the Pearl. A nice guy who ate there earlier attempted to help us find it, but even he had a hard time. Finally, he got his bearings and pointed us in the right direction. We were seated immediately. The food was everthing we expected it to be. A good find. We enjoyed a few glasses of wine along with our dinner and left about 9:30pm. When we left, we went straight out. We forgot that we zigzagged looking for the restaurant when we came in. hmmm..nothing looked familiar. A local couple heard us talking among ourselves and saw each of us pointing in a different direction and asked if we were lost. After explaining that we were not sure where we parked the truck. They laughed and shared a similar situation they had in San Diego. It took them two hours to find their car. We have only been wandering for about 20 minutes. They provided kind of a layout of The Pearl. It appears that parking surrounds the Pearl. We figured the best thing to do is go back to the Boiler House and start all over again...but where was the Boiler House?? We decided to continue to walk the perimeter until we found a main artery into the center of the Pearl while still looking and engaging the key fob. We found the Boiler House and took a look at pictures that we took with our phones to get our bearings of the correct direction. Aha...the direction was becoming clear. We got back out to the perimeter and Walt hit the key fob and The Beast lit up!! Whew...it only took 45 minutes. This was a group fubar. We had a good laugh.

We had planned on staying two full days, but we needed to get to St. Petersburg before 9/29 to catch my son and daughter-in-law before they left on 9/30 for a getaway. So we are heading to Spring TX tomorrow.