All right you gents from The Great State of Texas. I am going to San Antonio next week. You guys know any good razor, or shops to get a shave there? How about really good place to have dinner?
Thanks for the help.
Phil
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All right you gents from The Great State of Texas. I am going to San Antonio next week. You guys know any good razor, or shops to get a shave there? How about really good place to have dinner?
Thanks for the help.
Phil
I have nothing to offer but my condolences for having to go to texas.:D
Nothing wrong with Texas..
There is a AOS at La Cantera Mall
San Antonio is a great city --- can't help you with shaving destinations. Kerrville , Fredericksburg and Bandera are cool cities to check out also . With all the rain, the Guadalupe River will probably be muddy though ---
Justin
Jealousy rears it's ugly head...:nono: :shrug: :DQuote:
Originally Posted by syslight
RT (The T is for Texan!)
One saying that got me into trouble in Texas...
"We could just cut our state in half and make Texas the 3rd largest state."
Being that I was staitioned in Fairbanks AK at the time and have sence adopted AK as my home... Well the people in TX didn't like me saying that to much :p
Many years ago, when my father was just a tad more wild than he is today, he came home drunk and shot the next door neighbors calf with his bow, cleaned, and dressed the poor critter the whole time believing he had taken a deer! The next morning the cops came to get him. Knowing my fathers reputation they brought in several police. My father tried to stand them down with only a knife in his hand! at this point my step mother jumped in between the police and my father, and told the police that if they put away their guns my father would go with them peacefully. Well they did, and my father did. He was arrested and put in jail for what amounted to "cattle rustling"! This happened in Northern Ca. Many years later his father, who lived in Floresville Texas, died and my father had to fly out for the funeral. He carried his conviction papers in his wallet as a reminder not to drink, but refused to bring them with to Texas! He said he didn't want anyone in Texas to see the papers because they still hung people for "cattle rustling"!
That's a hell of a story Mark :tu ---can't make something like that up.
Texans (I have a ex-brother-in-law from Texas) are damn proud of their state and with good reason. Plain and simple they have their sh*t together -----and Texas is always absorbing people from states with less opportunities. Both of my sisters live in and work in Texas ----I enjoy going there when I can . The Texas Hills Country is particularly nice and I believe San Antonio sits at the southern end of it. :bow to Texas.
Justin
There is a saying that my grandfather always told us.
American by birth......Texan by the grace of God
there are lots of places i would like to live, however i choose texas. and yes, i am texan by the grace of God. thank God!!
another saying we have here is, 'i wasn't born in texas, but i got here as fast as i could.'
Texan!!!
was never a big fan of texas but when i was stationed in san antonio i loved it there. the river walk is great. dont know about shavin places but as for bars mad dogs is a great place, bunch of eating places so you should have no problem finding food
Now look - I love my state, but -
I have a pretty large professional conference that I go to every August, and most years it is in San Antonio at the Marriot Rivercenter - right on the "Riverwalk" -
This canal, this "waterway" is the supreme testament to "if you build it, they will come" - is it s murky, stinky fetid water-almost-stagnant-ditch thing - maybe twenty feet wide, with tour boats belching diesel fumes and a walk way next to it on both sides that meanders through downtown below street level. Pretty much all of the finer Mexican restaurants for tourists are along this waterway, and it is interesting to sit and watch the folks walk on the Riverwalk - while having damn good margaritas on the outside patios ling the walk, breathing in the fumes, and getting crapped on by pigeons, or watching dead fish floating by - but personally I never have seen the lure of the Riverwalk - and if you go in summer, it is a smelly, sweaty miserable shoulder to shoulder experience. But you might love it. :D
San An as a city, I like it alot, they have several cool theme parks just outside the place (Six Flags and Sea World) - you can catch all kinds of things at the Alamo Dome, which is very close to downtown (walking distance form Riverwalk, I would think - on the other side of freeway) - a bunch of great shopping and some really marvelous historic districts. If you have not ever seen or really read the history, go to the Alamo - it will give you a lot of insight into Texans and I think into the whole American experience, put a lot of things into perspective for me. It was a fantastic propaganda (used unapologetically by Sam Houston to obtain the support he needed to eventually defeat Santa Anna), and it still makes me proud to be a many generation Texican American. A must see, at least once. After the Alamo, stop by the Menger hotel bar for a drink (where reputedly Teddy Roosevelt recruited soldiers for his Roughrider campaign) - fine example of a nice quite old watering hole.
K
PS - then again, I might be too late - just saw the date of the original post!
The only time I was in San Antonio was in 1968, for the World's Fair. I was 7 at the time. I remember having a good time, and have always wanted to return. But having grown up 7-8 hours away driving time (yes, Texas is a big place), I never got back there. Someday...
RT