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Oge House, San Antonio
These are the first photos of our recent trip. We drove over 5000 miles (8000 km), were in ten different states, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah, though only passing through some of them. We visited five different national parks and monuments as well as other locations, including San Antonio, Texas, hiked around 60 miles of trails, biked, here in San Antonio, another 20 miles, and kayaked about 10 miles in Big Bend National Park. We were gone seventeen days, and most nights we camped in the back of our car. This was one exception to camping. Several of our children had booked us into this historic house in San Antonio for two nights and we thoroughly enjoyed our stay there.
Oge House is on the river just south of downtown San Antonio and though once a private residence is now a Texas Historic Landmark and a guest house. The sign in front reads: "One of the early stone residences of San Antonio. First floor and basement were built as early as 1857 when place was owned by attorney Newton A. Mitchell and his wife Catherine (Elder). Louis Oge (1832-1915) bought house in 1881 after migrating (1885) to Texas with the Castro colony, serving in thee Texas Rangers with W. A. A. "Bigfoot" Wallace, and making a fortune as a rancher. He was a San Antonio business leader and served as alderman and school board president. He had leading architect Alfred Giles enlarge and remodel the house in neo-classical style."
The photos show the house as we saw it when we first arrived (main photo), the house at night (first inset) and the room we had there (second inset), none of them remarkable photos but a good way, I thought, to post a long description of our trip. I'm eager to post better and more interesting photos than these, but didn't want to leave this part of our trip out of the record. We were treated like royalty there with a delicious breakfast each morning and port and sherry in the afternoon and evening. The other meals were our responsibility, but we were happy enough to be gone exploring the delights of this beautiful Texas city.
We left home on the 10th of February and drove to Sheridan, Wyoming, where we spent the night. The next morning we drove on, intending to reach Amarillo, Texas, but ended up driving through the night to San Antonio due to issues with the car. We had some blowing snow, icy roads and cold weather in Montana, Wyoming and Colorado but it was a balmy day in San Antonio when we arrived. After having the car seen to, we checked into our guest house and then went for a walk along the river. San Antonio has walkways along the river, below the level of the city and at the level of the river. It is even possible to hire a boat tour of the city, but we did not do that.
We went out again along the riverwalk in the evening and visited the Alamo, an old Spanish mission and site of a famous battle for Texas' independence from Mexico. The next day we hired bikes and followed the riverwalk ten miles south of the city along the Mission Trail, visiting four other old Spanish missions along the way, Mission Conception, Mission San Juan, Mission San Jose, and Mission Espada, returned for a second evening at Oge House.
Friday morning after breakfast we left San Antonio and drove south and west to Big Bend National Park on the Texas-Mexico border arriving there in the afternoon where we had a backcountry campsite booked and some hiking planned.
Oge House is on the river just south of downtown San Antonio and though once a private residence is now a Texas Historic Landmark and a guest house. The sign in front reads: "One of the early stone residences of San Antonio. First floor and basement were built as early as 1857 when place was owned by attorney Newton A. Mitchell and his wife Catherine (Elder). Louis Oge (1832-1915) bought house in 1881 after migrating (1885) to Texas with the Castro colony, serving in thee Texas Rangers with W. A. A. "Bigfoot" Wallace, and making a fortune as a rancher. He was a San Antonio business leader and served as alderman and school board president. He had leading architect Alfred Giles enlarge and remodel the house in neo-classical style."
The photos show the house as we saw it when we first arrived (main photo), the house at night (first inset) and the room we had there (second inset), none of them remarkable photos but a good way, I thought, to post a long description of our trip. I'm eager to post better and more interesting photos than these, but didn't want to leave this part of our trip out of the record. We were treated like royalty there with a delicious breakfast each morning and port and sherry in the afternoon and evening. The other meals were our responsibility, but we were happy enough to be gone exploring the delights of this beautiful Texas city.
We left home on the 10th of February and drove to Sheridan, Wyoming, where we spent the night. The next morning we drove on, intending to reach Amarillo, Texas, but ended up driving through the night to San Antonio due to issues with the car. We had some blowing snow, icy roads and cold weather in Montana, Wyoming and Colorado but it was a balmy day in San Antonio when we arrived. After having the car seen to, we checked into our guest house and then went for a walk along the river. San Antonio has walkways along the river, below the level of the city and at the level of the river. It is even possible to hire a boat tour of the city, but we did not do that.
We went out again along the riverwalk in the evening and visited the Alamo, an old Spanish mission and site of a famous battle for Texas' independence from Mexico. The next day we hired bikes and followed the riverwalk ten miles south of the city along the Mission Trail, visiting four other old Spanish missions along the way, Mission Conception, Mission San Juan, Mission San Jose, and Mission Espada, returned for a second evening at Oge House.
Friday morning after breakfast we left San Antonio and drove south and west to Big Bend National Park on the Texas-Mexico border arriving there in the afternoon where we had a backcountry campsite booked and some hiking planned.
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par la présence de ce superbe palmier.
Bon Mardi.
and compliment for the trip !
Un caro saluto!
Gabriella
I remember as a budding adult when I had my first real job. I worked at a bakery and took home a real paycheck every two weeks! So much MONEY! I would go window shopping at the mall where the bakery was and couldn't stop looking at the lovely fox coats in the leather shop. So soft and the black-tipped white fur was gorgeous. I knew I could never ever afford such a thing and so I just wanted to have one even more. Months went by and I wished I could get a coat like that. Then, when Christmas rolled around, they had a sale on those beautiful coats. It was just killing me. Finally I looked over my bank account and I thought about it. I gave myself permission..."YES! YOU CAN GET THAT COAT!!!" And you know what happened? The very second I allowed myself this outrageous purchase, I didn't want it after all. What a shock to my maturing mind, realizing that the biggest deal was that I wanted this thing I felt was off-limits. I didn't consider anything else but my desire. Only when I gave myself permission did I look at the reality of buying such a thing. Supporting the fur industry. Wearing the coats of beautiful animals which I would much rather see running in the wild. The disgusting fact of actually wearing furs as a luxury as opposed to an actual purpose. And knowing that the money could be used for something so much better. I learned such an important lesson about a folly of the rich. No thank you! :)
Back to your post! I loved the write up too. It's so nice to read about all of the adventures you went on, all the places you went to, the states you visited...and all in such a short period of time! CRAZINESS! :) But with your photography and writing, you can preserve all those fine memories, and how cool is that?! :) Steve tempts me to play video games from time to time--and I cannot resist my own gaming temptations sometimes, but I'm happy right now that my creativity and desire to document our adventures is at full-force so I've been cataloging like crazy, yay! :) It is a joy to see your travelogues as well, they are fantastic!
Thank you for the post you left on my red and green lichen picture...what a "colors of Christmas" image! I remember being delighted to find these lichens--and I'm always tickled when I see your enthusiasm over my lichen/moss/etc tiny life images as well as pictures of your own findings--the colors seem artificial, don't they?
Hey, I expect you already know this but I'd forgotten...did you know that lichen is NOT a plant?! (no roots) Instead, they are a symbiotic combination of fungus (also not a plant) and algae (and no, not a plant either!) or cyanobacteria (not a plant!) I'm sure I must have learned this when I was younger but I just plain forgot or probably, didn't understand it clearly. My nature book really clarifies things so much, so interesting! What dazzling discoveries on every spread of pages! :)
Other benefits of hiking---YES!! THE SMELLS!!! That's another thing I love to do, breathing so deeply to smell the gorgeous fragrances of everything around me. It is wonderful! Isn't it amazing how smells will zap you right to a point in time no matter when? Crazy how that is, the crispness of smell-memories!
Very interesting to read about jellies off the coast of Texas. I can only imagine the howls from your children--stings can be so BAD! Plenty of jellies off the beaches of San Francisco, but of course, who would be crazy enough to set foot in those freezing waters? (of course, ME as a diver but not as a beach-goer! :) The surfers are always in wetsuits so they probably don't encounter them much except for those in short-styles. Believe it or not, our shores get Portuguese Man o' Wars, though I only ever saw itty bitty ones on the beaches.
LOL, you and I are in the same boat: "BACON PRESS? WHAT IS A BACON PRESS???" Leave it to Steve to find out about interesting and useful cooking contraptions like that. Usually, that sort of thing is so gimmicky and useless in the end but a bacon press has a super purpose and works great. A total "Must Have" for the kitchen, esp if you have bacon regularly.
I visited the Lyndon diner website with the eggenues as an offering...NOMMY!! :) Looks like a wonderful place to eat too. :) I think that both you and Steve really love a wonderful breakfast like those served at this sort of establishment and that's why your meals are so divine! :) You're not satisfied until you can consistently create perfect meals for both of your preferences. :) Steve likes to use a very favorite breakfast spot in SF as his meter of excellence...like Avenue Bread, Mama's in SF www.mamas-sf.com/menu.html is brimming with outstanding fare...and if you think you're going to get in there on the weekends, get ready to stand in line for a solid HOUR (seriously) and then wait for another 45 min-hr to get your food...NO THANK YOU VERY MUCH!! That's why you guys learn to make the tasty dishes, because waiting that long is just silly. :D Meanwhile, your ladies are very happy to eat your lovely creations! :)
I hope you've been having a nice day! :) I am working on my rock collages, I'm hoping to post tomorrow! Gosh they are so pretty. :) It will be fun to show them off! :)
Ok, I'm out! Have a great rest of your day!! :)
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