San Antonio Attractions

July 25, 2012

Clay Pottery

Paint Your Own Clay Pottery

by Celia Hayes

In our never-ending search for interesting things to write about in, and around San Antonio, serendipity took a hand last week. We were actually heading for WingStop in Embassy Oaks for our monthly Red Hat gathering, but we were early. With some …

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July 13, 2012

Back Ways to New Braunfels

The Town That Was – And the Hardware Store That Is

by Celia Hayes

Lately, we've taken to getting to New Braunfels by following Nacogdoches road all the way up to where it intersects with FM 482. Just around that intersection we have been intrigued by a range of …

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June 15, 2012

Nimitz Museum Fredericksburg Texas

Museum of the Pacific – Re-enactor Daze

 

by Celia Hayes

Among the attractions of Fredericksburg, the queen of the Hill Country is the Museum of the Pacific War. Ever since I started visiting the Hill Country (shortly after coming to settle in a tiny suburban San Antonio home) in …

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June 8, 2012

Adventures in Auctions in Frederickburg Texas

Fredericksburg Adventures in Auctions

by Celia Hayes

We haven't found anything good in a while, there are few spectacular big sales on the calendar, and our favorite thrift stores have been milked dry ... so last weekend we explored a new venue: an estate auction. We had seen auctions on …

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May 24, 2012

Buc-ees New Braunfels

It's New, It's Huge, It's Buc-ee's New Braunfels!

 
 

Since we are somewhat experienced as long-haul road-trippers, we are – thank you very much – aficionados of those beside-the-highway establishments set up to offer gas, food, conveniences, or even just a place …

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May 9, 2012

Exploring Buda

Exploring Buda, Texas-Just 45 Minutes North of San Antonio

 

by Celia Hayes

We didn't spend all of last weekend watching the wienerdogs run; the Buda City park where that event took place was pleasingly located right next to old down-town Buda, so when we had enough of wandering …

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May 4, 2012

Wiener Dog Races in Buda

The Running of the Wiener Dogs in Buda, Texas

by Celia Hayes

Let me say up front that we're still a little unsure of how to pronounce 'Buda' – although most of the people that we met there last weekend pronounced it 'B-yu-dah', which is fair enough. For those …

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April 22, 2012

A Weekend of Market Hopping in San Antonio

A Weekend in the Markets

by Celia Hayes

Several markets, actually – beginning with the super-gigantic NEISD – PTA book sale, which is held every year in April at the Blossom Athletic center basketball stadium. This is the nirvana of book sales to a serious aficionado of same, both because …

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March 31, 2012

Road Trip to Bergheim Texas

Road Trip: Bergheim

by Celia Hayes

The name 'bergheim' means – if I remember my several years of high school and college German correctly – 'mountain home'. Strictly speaking, although the beating urban heart of Bergheim, Texas, is not anywhere near a mountain that I would recognize as such, (having …

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March 23, 2012

2012 Valero Texas Open Schedule of Events

 The Valero Texas Open Schedule of Events

2012 Valero Texas Open

Monday, April 16
JV Industrial Companies Pro-Am

Benefiting Still Water Christian Ministries & The First Tee of San Antonio
The AT&T Oaks Course
11:00 a.m. - Shotgun Start

Tuesday, April 17
PGA TOUR Player Practice Rounds
Begin at …

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