san antonio

the alamo (and the nearby riverwalk) overwhelm downtown san antonio, imho, with its texas jingoism --- tejanas were involved in its restoration in the early twentieth century, but could not keep it from being thoroughly de-mexicanized --- after a hundred years of tourism, this part of the city is very much like gatlinburg

our hotel was an adaptive use of a historic building and there's a lot of interesting architecture, but still . . . .

i am sorry that we did not time our stay to include the spanish governors palace, ca. 1722, which is the last bit of the spanish presidio san antonio de béxar