Highlights of our Road Trip to Texas

We like staying off the main highway as much as possible

and its then you see little

gems like the town of Shinersville and

their old buildings - 

Don't they make you swoon?

 It was a Sunday and all the stores were closed

and the streets were bare.

 Evidently there was a shindig going on and they

didn't tell us where.

That's ok because we were headed to the Alamo.

 Of course you can't wander through Texas without seeing

an oil rig or 3M. LOL.

Tried to get this statue of all the lost

from the fight at the Alamo without a bunch of people

posing. So its at a very weird angle and the names are hard to read.

 From across the street - again it was full of people

because we picked the 4th of July weekend to visit and

6 million others had the same idea.

 The lines were around the block to get into the actual Alamo

and it was extremely hot so we admired it from the outside.

 There were entrances into the courtyards that

were green, lush and most important cool that we hightailed into.

There were nooks and crannies to explore- too dark

to capture on the camera, this well that was in the center of this

courtyard.

 And cannons - what's a fort without cannons.

And a gift shop.

That has this amazing diorama (under glass) of the fort/mission as it

would've looked back in the day when it was under seige.

It was alot bigger than you think.

I took this with my phone and that is the front of the mission that

still stands today (fixed up), and the walls that surround it today

were two stories back then are now one story and wooden slats have

been installed in the arches.

Around the back side of the diorama show a lot more buildings

and courtyards with a force of soldiers "attacking"

that really emphasises how outnumbered they really were.