Yes, I know it’s the tourism board’s sentimental slogan, and I am now nowhere near the River Walk, 700 miles to the south in Mexico City. But nostalgia dies hard, especially when it comes to San Antonio, and so I was pleased to be asked to write a story about my former hometown for the Houston Chronicle. The story appears in today’s travel section. San Antonio Express-News travel readers will get a treat from my former Houston Chronicle colleague, Harry Shattuck, detailing some of the finer points of the Bayou City.
Here’s a little taste of my San Antonio story, together with a slide show and a link to the full story, for those who don’t have access to today’s Chronicle. If you’d like to see more of my San Antonio ramblings, click here for a beyond-the-Alamo tour guide.
More to love in the Alamo City
If you liked San Antonio before, get ready.
The Alamo City is just about to give you a whole lot more to love.
From the revitalized Main Plaza at the heart of the city to the restored Mission Concepción in the south, from the newly polished gem of a Japanese Garden in Brackenridge Park to the hip and happening Pearl Brewery complex, there’s already more to see in San Antonio than you may have suspected.
The city’s crown jewel — the famed River Walk — is undergoing a $384.5 million expansion that will increase its reach by several orders of magnitude. This 13-mile linear parkway is unfolding in stages until late 2013, transforming a neglected, weed-choked drainage ditch into a word-class attraction. In the process, the project is transforming the city itself.
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