San Antonio to Santa Fe

We left San Antonio and proceeded to Fredericksburg which had been recommended as a nice little town to visit. On the way a big chunk of one of my teeth fell out. We stopped in a little town and I called a dentist. She was busy but did recommend that I try this dental fix. Fredericksburg was a town founded by Germans. There are many other towns nearby first settled by Germans. We had a wonderful dinner in one of the German restaurants. Yesterday we drove from Fredericksburg to Santa Fe about 650 miles. Not too bad when you are driving 85 or 90 most of the time. We stopped in Roswell, NM (no not to see UFOs) to see their museum. They had a very interesting museum, a large pottery display, a section dedicated to Goddard including his workshop, a display of indian and old west memorabilia and then paintings. They had one Georgia O'Keefe, rams head and brown leaves. The painting looked three dimensional. It was quite beautiful. I only took one picture on this day and I will post it later. Today we are going to do some of the museums here in Santa Fe. Tomorrow is Labor Day so I don't know how much will be open. We will probably do Bandalier which is about 50 miles from Santa Fe and an Arts and Crafts festival on the plaza.

This is the Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo. It is called "Queen of the Missions". There are five missions along the San Antonio River. The priests brought the indians in to convert, to help build the mission and to farm. The indians were being attacked by the Apache and Comanche and came to survive. The low building below is where they lived. It was interesting to hear the park rangers history of the mission.

This is the interior of the Church which is in use today.

This is the Emily Morgan Hotel in downtown San Antonio which is across from the Alamo. We had a marvelous time. There was so much to see and do there. We walked and walked and walked. The Riverwalk was so much fun. We ate dinner there once and took the riverboat tour. We went to the Witte Museum and The McNay. We went up in the Tower and looked out over San Antonio. There is a lot of sprawl there and over 1 million people. The photo below is on the grounds of the Alamo with our hotel in the background. The grounds are beautiful. The Alamo is maintained by the Daughters of Texas through donations by visitors, their gift shop and companies. The next two photos show the Alamo by day and night. I would recommend San Antonio as a must see. We did not even get to see everything.

This is the capitol of Louisiana. It is the tallest state capitol in the US. You can go up to the 27th floor where there is an observation deck. The view from there is quite spectacular. Huey Long had the capitol built in about 14months at a cost of 5million in 1932. He is buried there on the grounds of the capitol. (in the second picture) The third picture is the old capitol building. We were told that Huey Long had a bridge built across the Mississippi so that the boats could not go up and down the river. They had to use the port authority and therefore pay.