San Antonio Chasing the Whirlwind!

January 15-21, 2019


We left Guadaloupe River State Park and made the short journey to the Travelers World RV Resort. Rarely do we choose to stay at a fancy resort. The sites are too close together and this one was filled with “Winter Texans” or snowbirds who wanted the amenities and activities this resort offered. We wanted full hook-ups and a play ground to make it easier to entertain a three year-old. The resort was also a short drive from downtown and we had plans to fill every day with fun activities in the city.


We picked up our family and deposited Mom and Dad at their hotel and brought our granddaughter back to the trailer. We started the week with a whole day at the San Antonio Zoo, whose highlights for our granddaughter were feeding a giraffe and riding the antique carousel.

Watch out for that long blue tongue!

Porcupine quills

Flamingo wanna-be

Testing our balance

The next day we toured the excellent children's museum, the DOseum. Lots of kids, lots of interactive exhibits. She ran from one exhibit to the next until we all discovered the book room where you were encouraged to choose a book and have reading time. That took care of naptime for the day! Her highlight was the outside bubble blowing courtyard with huge troughs of bubble liquid and huge shapes to dredge through it and blow very large bubbles.

Blowing giant bubbles

Exploring the bamboo garden

Dressing as an alien and making a movie

Airline pilot

Dancing with a robot

The following day we found a small Fire Fighting Museum downtown. Our granddaughter is into anything drive-able and is crazy about fire trucks, chose this museum over the airplane museum. Her favorite was the kids area with toys and fire equipment to explore. Then we walked to the wonderful San Antonio Riverwalk area. Lunch in a riverside restaurant was followed by a boat ride through downtown on the San Antonio River. She was thrilled that the people on the Riverwalk waved back at her as we sailed by!

Grandma was trying to keep up!

Riverwalk boat tour

Our final full day we drove back to the wonderful city park where we had explored the Zoo and rode on the small scale train that circumnavigated the park. It was a large park and a surprisingly long ride. After that we explored the park and she enjoyed a large playground filled with other children playing in the warm Texas sunshine.


Monday, the 21^st, we took a detour through a car wash, to our granddaughter's delight, and picked up her parents downtown. We sadly said goodbye to all of them at the airport and drove back to spend our last night at the resort. The following morning found us on our way out of San Antonio and heading west. We found a Texas rest stop to overnight in and left the interstate on the 23^rd to cross a remote stretch of back roads to get to Alpine, Texas.

No entertainment beats a drive-through Car Wash!