South Padre to San Antonio Pix

We left South Padre Island retracing our route up as far as Interstate 37, 12 miles west of Corpus Christi. I-37 took us all the way to San Antonio. Almost as soon as we turned northwest on I-37, you could see the terrain begin to change. We were leaving the Rio Grande Valley and the coastal plain behind and heading up to the Texas Hill Country. The road took us through rolling countryside with many more sizeable trees and less scrub then we saw the last few days.

San Antonio is one of our favorite cities. We were here earlier this year for one of Susie's American Library Association meetings. We wrote up that trip in February. Since this is a city we had just recently visited we decided to use the afternoon for more mundane tasks. We need to replenish some of our supplies for the RV and drove to a RV "supermarket" to buy those. We had a major load of laundry and that was done. We still had a little time to drive around downtown San Antonio and stopped at Market Square, which we did not visit in February. Market Square is an area just west of downtown that was originally what the name implies, a city market. Today it has restaurants, including Mi Tierra, in which we dined a few years ago. Mi Tierra is a family business that is open 24 hours a day/365 days a year. It has never closed since it opened in 1943. Most of the Market Square area, which includes El Mercado and The Farmers Market (which has nothing to do with farmers), is geared to tourists.

As I write this we are under a severe thunder storm warning. The radar shows heavy cells all around us, but so far, we have had only a little rain and distant thunder. However, there are still a few cells west of us and we may yet get some of the heavy stuff.

We left South Padre Island retracing our route up as far as Interstate 37, 12 miles west of Corpus Christi. I-37 took us all the way to San Antonio. Almost as soon as we turned northwest on I-37, you could see the terrain begin to change. We were leaving the Rio Grande Valley and the coastal plain behind and heading up to the Texas Hill Country. The road took us through rolling countryside with many more sizeable trees and less scrub then we saw the last few days. San Antonio is one of our favorite cities. We were here earlier this year for one of Susie's American Library Association meetings. We wrote up that trip in February. Since this is a city we had just recently visited we decided to use the afternoon for more mundane tasks. We need to replenish some of our supplies for the RV and drove to a RV "supermarket" to buy those. We had a major load of laundry and that was done. We still had a little time to drive around downtown San Antonio and stopped at Market Square, which we did not visit in February. Market Square is an area just west of downtown that was originally what the name implies, a city market. Today it has restaurants, including Mi Tierra, in which we dined a few years ago. Mi Tierra is a family business that is open 24 hours a day/365 days a year. It has never closed since it opened in 1943. Most of the Market Square area, which includes El Mercado and The Farmers Market (which has nothing to do with farmers), is geared to tourists. As I write this we are under a severe thunder storm warning. The radar shows heavy cells all around us, but so far, we have had only a little rain and distant thunder. However, there are still a few cells west of us and we may yet get some of the heavy stuff.
	Market Square

	The main "street" of Market Square

	El Mercado contains booths selling primarily Mexican goods	Getting an early start on jewelry shopping