We woke to our tour guide making us pancakes. Big thick American style pankackes. I just couldn't bring myself to put maple syrup on them so early in the morning so i went with traditional sugar and lemon juice, though this didn't work as well as with thin ones! The group ventured out in to Austin and took a brief look at the Capitol which was cool because it was pink but not as impressive as the one in Washington DC. There are several excellent museums in Texa...

Only a 2.5 hour drive to San Antonio and we were greeted by a temperature of 38 degrees outside the van. Somehow the air was dryer though, and so much more bearable without the sticky muggyness like we had in West Virginia. We had a few hours to explore the city which is beautiful. It had a gorgeous river walk with tweeny little 'hobit bridges' (or so I like to call them) and sunny little restaurants lining the river. We stopped for lunch at a Mexican place which...