Mar 14th to 16th - San Antonio to Whitney TX

Mar 14th - Sat - San Antonio
Still cool & drizzly but we figured we better go downtown anyhow. We found a parking garage and walked to the Buckhorn Restaurant and Museum which I had seen in a brochure. There is also a Texas Ranger Museum so we got a combo ticket and spent about 1 ½ hours going through them & the gift store. The Texas Ranger museum is a little dry with a lot of reading necessary. It included Bonnie & Clyde’s car with all the bullet holes from their final showdown with police & rangers. The Buckhorn museum is an amazing collection of all sorts of things - stuffed animals (American, African & others), stuffed bird & fish displays, saddles & other tack, spurs, chairs made from horns & hides, historical dioramas, bronze busts, “old West” rooms (jail, bar, etc), oddities (2 headed calf, antler anomalies) and other bits & pieces to numerous to mention.
We went next to the RiverWalk which is very nice. The city has built bulkheads along the river with pathways on both sides. A man-made canal was added to extend a sharp turn in the river into a complete loop. You go down steps from the street level to the RiverWalk and there are multiple foot bridges over the river as well as car bridges which are also accessible by stairs. We took a half hour boat tour for an overview and some history. It was drizzling a bit when we started but not enough to ruin the tour.
Headed back early as Louise had invited us and another couple over for dinner. We met Ron & Gail when we were in Sarasota for New Years.
Had a great dinner and then went to “Casino Night” in the park. They gave everyone a dish of 50 chips and 5 tickets which you could deposit in bags for your choice of 5 gifts in a drawing. You then gambled (21, poker, horse racing) and bought more tickets with your winnings. You could also buy these tickets and tickets for a $250 credit card. The first ticket drawn was for an MP3 player and Terry won it!! Guess who gets to figure out how to load music on it?!

Mar 15th - Sun - San Antonio
We went back to downtown San Antonio this morning. I tried to talk Terry into taking the bus that stops right in front of the park but when it was at least 15 minutes late we both said “to heck with it” and took the truck again. We parked near the Alamo historic site, saw a line again and went to the RiverWalk via a large shopping mall. We found a restaurant serving a buffet brunch and had a lovely meal sitting outside on the second floor balcony of the restaurant. Handy since the buffet was served on the second floor!
We were wandering along the RiverWalk when a small parade of boats/barges went by in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. There was a band, a bagpipe group, 2 groups of young girls dancing Irish dances and a couple of rag-tag groups which were both dragging bags of green dye in the river. On the way back to the truck, we finally got into the Alamo grounds. I am not a huge history buff and was not impressed with this attraction. Might have been more interesting if we had waited in the line to enter a building that we never did know what was in there - possibly a film?We went for a bike ride on a biking/walking trail that follows the river for several miles. It goes to a mission not far from the park but we did not find it before we were ready to turn around and check the trail out the other way from the park. There were quite a few “ups & downs” that wore both of us out.

Mar 16th - Mon - to Lake Whitney TX
We said farewell to Doug & Louise this morning. Our just over 4 hour trip turned into 4 ½ hours as an accident on the freeway caused us to sit for ½ hour waiting for it to clear and then for the traffic to get moving. We listened to the CB and truckers were saying the back up was 7 miles long.
We are at the Lake Whitney Marina & RV Park - PA park northeast of Waco. Nice quiet park but Terry is out right now (8:15 pm) trying to figure out why we have no water. The only faucet that we found was on the side of a mobile home beside us and we did have water earlier. He just came back and we have water from another tap that he found somewhere.
The marina has an indoor fishing area where you can fish for free when you stay in the RV park. We walked down to watch for a while and chatted with a couple from a nearby town who leave a trailer here for weekend use. Only a couple of keeper perch were caught - we may try it out tomorrow.
We went for a walk around the rest of the park which is spread out over a large area. Lovely weather! Sunny and warm.